This was the most obscene Nobel Prize of all time. They were completely swept away by the AI boom, and gave this ridiculous prize completely unrelated to Physics.
- Nobel Foundation:Ciro Santilli:
Did you know that models for machine learning were based on equations from physics?
Nice try but the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics still isn't about Physics.
- academia.stackexchange.com/questions/214109/is-there-a-reason-why-the-nobel-prize-in-physics-2024-is-awarded-to-a-computer-s
- lamarr-institute.org/blog/thoughts-physics-nobel-prize-2024
- www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1fz27m5/nobel_prize_2024/ User ervexHublot comments
Nobel prize sponsored by Nvidia
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Official announcement: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/summary/
Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 explained by Parth G
. Source. Quick intro. Notably missing is a clearer discussion of the applications.This one took a while! Major developments were from the 70s! Perhaps it took the Internet revolution to make its importance clear.
This was so hot (no pun intended) and reproducible that the prize was awarded one year after discovery. Quite rare in those days already.
As described at Section "Radio astronomy", this new type of telescope led to the exciting discovery of new types of astronomical objects, notably pulsars and quasars.
The key initial quantum electrodynamics experiments:
Early electron diffraction experiment from 1927 that drastically confirmed the matter wave hypothesis.
Discovery of:
- the positron by Carl David Anderson
- he cosmic rays by Victor Francis Hess
To Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron.
Niels Bohr for the Bohr model.
Einstein for the theoretical explanation of the photoelectric effect from 1905, notably published as on a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light by Einstein (1905).
Jointly awarded to Bragg Junior and Senior. Junior was only 25 at the time, the youngest ever STEM nobel prize laureate as of 2024, and given that science is getting harder nad harder, this is not likely to change ever.
Part of what they did was to determine the structure of a bunch of rocks. These must have been every exciting times, to be able for the first time to have direct evidence of the molecular composition of materials.
Not only did this open the way for X-ray crystallography, it more fundamentally clarified the nature of X-rays as being electromagnetic radiation, and helped further establish the atomic theory.
Pieter Zeeman for the Zeeman effect.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics is one of the six Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in 1895. It is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions to the field of physics. The prize recognizes outstanding achievements, including groundbreaking discoveries, innovations, or theoretical advancements.