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russia, belarus and iran invited back to Nobel Prize banquet

russia and belarus have been invited back to 's Nobel Prize banquet after being left out last year because of the war, the Nobel Foundation says

iran has also been invited back to the event in 's capital after not being allowed to attend last year

The foundation said it sought to include even those who did not share the values of the

Read more here 📎 bbc.com/news/world-europe-6667

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‘Godfather of ’ quits with regrets and fears about his life’s work.

Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘ of ’ for his trailblazing work on is now free to speak about the risks of .

theverge.com/2023/5/1/23706311

“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.”

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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in 1914 the Franck-Hertz electron collisions experiment showing internal quantum levels of atoms was first presented - and supported Niels Bohr's theory on the structure of the atom. Photos: James Franck, a vacuum tube used in the experiment, and Gustav Hertz.

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"It took many decades to go from the first evidence of that extraordinary property of the quantum world to the first applications. That lesson should be recalled to our governments and their funding agencies."

Worth recalling Alain Aspect’s powerful speech.

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Have you ever had a science experiment gone wrong?

It even happens to Nobel laureates! Read about Reinhard Genzel’s anecdotes from his youth and more.

Our former ERC member won a 2020 for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy. 🏅
RT @NobelPrize: “One day, I was playing with the spectrometer and boy, did I get the full 15 kilovolts!”

Even 2020 physics laureate Reinhard Genzel had some unsuccessful forays in science…

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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Did you know Jan and Nikolaas Tinbergen are the only siblings to both be awarded a ?

Four years after Jan received the 1969 prize in economic sciences, his brother Nico was awarded the medicine prize for work on animal behaviour.

Read more: bit.ly/3jh3gWF

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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"I was excited about achieving a career in physics. My family, being more practical, thought the most desirable position for me would be as an elementary school teacher."

From medicine laureate Rosalyn Yalow's biography: bit.ly/3MYNbCD

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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Niels Bohr’s groundbreaking paper proposing a new atomic model, 'On the constitution of atoms and molecules' is dated 5 April 1913. It was published in July of the same year.

Bohr was awarded the in Physics in 1922.

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April, 1896

Svante Arrhenius publishes “On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground”

The first measurements of the effect of C02 on temperature

On p.275 he tabulates temperature increases (by latitude) if CO2 decreases, or increases by 1.5x

He was the 1st Swede to win the and later went on to chair the Nobel Committee

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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Do you recognize this laureate at age five?

In 1884, Albert Einstein received a compass from his father. After that, Albert couldn't stop puzzling over the nature of a magnetic field. He received the 1921 physics prize for his contributions to theoretical physics.

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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Happy International Women's Day!

We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.

Who are the women who inspire you the most?

#NobelPrize #iwd2023

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

Gabriel García Márquez is often named as one of the greatest Latin American writers of all time. He was awarded the 1982 in Literature.

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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in 1869 chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) first presented his periodic table, an arrangement of chemical elements in order of increasing atomic mass. Today there are 118 elements in the table. He was nominated for a in 1906.

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RT @Europeanaeu: You probably know about Marie Skłodowska-Curie, but can you name any other woman who won the ? 🤔
We have a featuring many of them, check it out and learn
➡️europeana.eu/en/galleries/9232

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How did life begin? One key ingredient is coming into view
A -winning scientist’s team has taken a big step forward in its quest to reconstruct an early-Earth capable of building .
Scientists suggest a couple of speculative functions: perhaps the sequestered metal ions that would otherwise destroy RNAs. Or, they might have helped to form early biomolecular compartments to concentrate RNA and peptides together. nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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The scientist behind the discovery of the neutron was James Chadwick, who was awarded the 1935 in Physics.

The discovery was reported in two papers. The first, 'Possible Existence of a Neutron', was published , 27 February 1932, in Nature.

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
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"If I don't get my sleep my brain doesn't work!"

Nobel Prize laureate Didier Queloz tells students what he does outside the lab to keep his mind working.

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Michał Boni · @MichalBoni
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RT @UniWarszawski: 2⃣2⃣ lutego laureaci Nagrody Nobla z dziedziny fizyki, prof. Barry C. Barish oraz prof. Arthur B. McDonald, wygłoszą w Warszawie wykłady zatytułowane „Exploring the Hidden Universe”. Partnerem wydarzenia jest .
Więcej informacji: uw.edu.pl/spotkanie-z-noblista

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