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Nobel Prizes Awarded

Posted by chrisd on from the recognition-and-cash-for-smart-people dept.

imrdkl writes: "Looks like Cisco has done a deal with CNN to present a nice overview of the Nobel Prizes this year. The Science awards that have been presented so far include one for singing atoms in Physics, as well as others linked from the URL above for medicine and chemistry. It's worth noting that the physics article was already covered here on slashdot, but now it's official for all."

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  1. Singing Atoms by Spooky+Possum · · Score: 3, Funny

    As someone who works with Bose-Einstein condensates all I can say is that I've never heard one sing. Since they're kept under vacuum I can't hear them scream either. Pity.

    1. Re:Singing Atoms by Mononoke · · Score: 3, Funny
      Darn I was going to ask what type of music they sang that would make it Nobel Material.
      Particle Man, of course.
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  2. Singing atoms... brain... storage... by PM4RK5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure I'd want "computers that rival the brain in ... storage."

    My experience is the brain has an exceedingly high rate of data loss =)

  3. Professor Farnsworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obligatory Futurama reference ("Mars University" episode):

    Professor: "It's a little experiment that may well win me the Nobel Prize."
    Leela: "In what field?"
    Professor: "I don't care, they all pay the same."