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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
One Step Closer To The Quantum Future
October 17, 2012 This year's Nobel Prize in physics celebrates amazing experiments that have the potential to elucidate some of Nature's deepest secrets. They also and have the potential to lead us down the path to a world transformed by revolutionary quantum applications.
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French And American Scientists Share Physics Nobel
October 9, 2012 Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States have been honored for their work on the interaction between life and matter — in particular, the "fundamental interactions between light particles and matter."
13.7: Cosmos And Culture
Accelerating Universes, Nobel Prizes And A Revolution In Cosmology
October 4, 2011 Nobody expected the result. Nobody knew what to do with it. It came as a complete surprise. It sent cosmologists back to their blackboards, rethinking the structure of the universe and its history. Now the work has earned a Nobel Prize.
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Nobel Prize In Physics Honors Work On Expanding Universe
October 4, 2011 Their discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace was "astounding," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says. It suggests that "dark energy" is pushing the universe apart.
