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Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel

Posted by timothy on from the wave-physicists-get-it-simultaneously dept.

somegeekynick writes "The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago 'for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics,' and Makoto Kobayashi of the KEK lab and Toshihide Maskawa of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, both in Japan, 'for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.'"

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  1. w00t by Poltras · · Score: 2, Funny

    Grats boys! Phat loot.

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    1. Re:w00t by rugatero · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sure is one ugly woman...

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    2. Re:w00t by afabbro · · Score: 1, Funny

      How do you know they are "boys"

      Because they're physicists.

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    3. Re:w00t by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 2, Funny

      World-class physicists.

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  2. Re:Am I the only one that thinks by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    [Am I the only one that thinks] sharing prizes on subatomic particles studies is ironic???

    Maybe you are, maybe you are not. We won't know until someone observes your post, thus collapsing the waveform...

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  3. Re:Speaking of broken symmetry... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did you forget particle beam?

  4. Re:What's with the shared prizes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is no prize in biology.

  5. Yeah, but if the LHC kills us all... by davido42 · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... then this will be the LAST prize in subatomic particle physics! So maybe they're hedging their bets.

    IMO, the prizes should almost always be shared. Nobody works in a vacuum* --they are all building on the work of the rest of the community. Seriously, the number of scientists who understand this stuff is vanishingly small*!

    * Wow, the comedy just writes itself...

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    1. Re:Yeah, but if the LHC kills us all... by Ortega-Starfire · · Score: 2, Funny

      How appropriate then that the last prize be awarded to Kobayashi as well, if that no-win scenario takes place.

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  6. Re:Bose anyone? by evilviper · · Score: 4, Funny

    The dead scientists can't appreciate the honor, so it makes sense to give it to them while they're alive

    I go around giving people preemptive Darwin Awards for just this reason...

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  7. Re:Bose anyone? by oldhack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, please, no Nobel for crappy stereo.

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