Ig Nobel Prize - Ig Nobel Prize Ig Nobel Prizes (as in "ignoble") are awarded annually to those who have made strange scientific achievements. Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy things -- some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. The prizes are presented at a gala ceremony in Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, and are sponsored by the scientific humour journal Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). The first IgNobels were awarded in 1991. Explains the journal's editor Marc Abrahams, "Most scientists don't get much attention for their work. For the winners it's an opportunity for people to pay attention to them and ask them what they do." Officially the prizes are granted for 'performances that cannot or should not be repeated'. The former are usually some kind.
Dirac Prize - Dirac Prize The Dirac Prize is given each year by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics(ICTP) in honour of physicist P.A.M. Dirac. The award, given each year on August 8 (Dirac's birthday), was first presented in 1985. An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the winners from a list of nominated candidates. The Committee invites nominations from scientists working in the fields of theoretical physics or mathematics. The Dirac Medal is not awarded to Nobel Laureates, Fields Medallists, or Wolf Foundation Prize winners. The Medallists also receive a prize of US$ 5,000..
Kai Manne Boerje Siegbahn - doctorate at the Univ. of Stockholm in 1944. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow for their work in spectroscopy. Siegbahn developed techniques for chemical analysis using high-resolution electron spectroscopy. External Links Kai Manne Boerje Siegbahn.
Kenneth G. Wilson - American physicist. A professor at Cornell Univ., Wilson was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing a theory of second-order phase transitions in matter that accounts for effects on neighboring molecules. External Links Kenneth G. Wilson.
Kurt Wüthrich - (born October 4, 1938) is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate. Born in Aarberg, Switzerland, Wüthrich was educated in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the University of Berne before pursuing his Ph.D. under the direction of Silvio Fallab at the University of Basel, awarded in 1964. He continued post-doctoral work with Fallab for a short time before leaving to work at the University of California, Berkeley from 1965 to 1967 with Robert E. Connick. That was followed by a stint working with Robert G. Shulman at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey (1967-1969). Wüthrich returned to Switzerland, to Zürich, in 1969, where he began his career there at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Federal Institute of Technology), rising to Professor of Biophysics by 1980. He was awarded part of.
J. H. van 't Hoff - 1852 - March 1, 1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Rotterdam, the son of a medical doctor. From a young age he was interested in science, and against the wishes of his father he went to study chemistry, first at the Delft Polytechnical Institute, then at the University of Leiden, then to Bonn, Germany (where he studied with Friedrich Kekulé), then Paris (where he studied with C. A. Wurtz), and finally receiving his doctorate at the University of Utrecht in 1874. Before receiving his doctorate, however, Van 't Hoff already published the first of his important contributions to organic chemistry. He accounted for the phenomenon of optical activity by assuming that the chemical bonds between carbon.
J. Hans D. Jensen - (1907 - 1973) was a German physicist who shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert Mayer for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. (The other half of the prize was awarded to Eugene P. Wigner for unrelated work.) External Links J. Hans D. Jensen.
January 30 - racing cars (+ 1959) 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (+ 1989) 1914 - David Wayne, actor (+ 1995) 1914 - John Ireland, actor (+ 1992) 1920 - Delbert Mann, director 1922 - Dick Martin, comedian 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, writer 1925 - Dorothy Malone, actress 1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (+ 1986) 1928 - Hal Prince, stage producer, director 1930 - Gene Hackman, actor 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, historian, naturalist and author 1935 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet (+ 1984) 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, actress 1937 - Boris Spassky, chess grand master 1941 - Dick Cheney, politician 1943 - Marty Balin, musician 1945 - Michael Dorris, author (+ 1997) 1947 - Steve Marriott, musician ("The Small Faces") (+ 1991).
January 5 - country music producer (†2003) 1926 - Maria Schell, actress 1928 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984 1928 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (†1979) 1931 - Alvin Ailey, choreographer (†1989) 1931 - Alfred Brendel, pianist 1931 - Robert Duvall, actor and director 1932 - Umberto Eco, philologist and writer 1932 - Raisa Gorbachev, political consort, (†1999) 1938 - King Juan Carlos of Spain 1941 - Miyazaki Hayao, film maker 1941 - Grady Thomas, singer (P-Funk) 1942 - Maurizio Pollini, pianist 1942 - Charlie Rose, talk show host 1946 - Diane Keaton, actress 1953 - George Tenet, Director of the CIA 1961 - Suzy Amis, actress 1969 - Marilyn Manson, singer Deaths 1589 - Catherine de Medici, Queen of France 1740.
January 8 - the United States who did not succeed her husband. 1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 1992 - President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister. 1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 1997 - Mister Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1998 - Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka. 1998 - Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing. 2000 - The 4th and final day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit 2004 - Queen Elizabeth names the Queen.
Janez Strnad - Strnad He taught for many years from 1961 at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for natural science and technology on the Department of physics introductory courses and topics from physics. His surname Strnad in English means a yellowhammer. He took a degree at the University of Ljubljana in technical physics in 1957, and got his Doctor's degree in 1963. His main research work was carried out at the Jožef Stefan Institute. In 1974 he became a full professor. In 1990 he wrote his beautiful and famous book about fundamental particles physics entitled Iz take smo snovi kot sanje (We are such stuff as dreams are made of). With his short and long articles he had deepened the knowledge about Stefan's scientific work. His thick booklet in the series of monographs, Zbirka.
Jack Kilby - Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1947 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. From 1978 to 1985, he was Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his breakthrough discovery. Link http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackstclair.shtml.
Jaroslav Heyrovsky - March 27, 1967) was a Czech chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1959. He was born in Prague and first studied chemistry, physics and mathematics at the University of Prague and then he went to study at University College in London. At this time he met with such a great mind like Sir William Ramsay. He graduated in 1913; working with Professor Donnan he took up a great interest in electrochemistry. He received his further degrees in 1918 and 1923. Heyrovsky started his scientific career at the Charles University, Prague where he soon became Professor of Physical Chemistry. The main field of work of Heyrovsky was polarography..
James Chadwick - - July 24, 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate. Chadwick was born in Bollington, England and educated at Manchester University and Cambridge University. In 1914 Chadwick went to study under Hans Geiger at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin (today the Technical University of Berlin). During the First World War Chadwick was interned in Germany as an enemy alien. After the war Chadwick returned to Cambridge where he worked with Ernest Rutherford in investigating the emission of gamma rays from radioactive materials. They also studied the transmutation of elements by bombarding them with alpha particles and investigated the nature of the atomic nucleus. In 1932 Chadwick made a fundamental discovery in the domain of nuclear science: he discovered the particle in the nucleus of an atom that became known as.
James Rainwater - - 1986) was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. External Links James Rainwater.
James Watson Cronin - co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not merely retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. External Links James Watson Cronin.
John Bardeen - the BCS theory. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1928. Bardeen studied Physics as a graduate student at Princeton, with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1936. In 1956, Bardeen received the Nobel Prize in physics for the transistor. Amazingly, he received it again in 1972 for the BCS theory. No other physicist has received it twice. Bardeen was also an important advisor to the Xerox Corporation. Though quiet by nature, he took the rare step of urging Xerox executives to keep their California research center, Xerox PARC, afloat when the parent company was suspicious that its research center would amount to little. Xerox PARC went on to create the point-and-click method,.
Johns Hopkins University - the undergraduate and graduate levels, and nearly 80% of Johns Hopkins undergrads produce research by the time of graduation. The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, located on campus, is one of the largest on the East Coast, housing nearly 4 million volumes. In addition to graduate education at the schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering, Johns Hopkins also has several prestigious graduate professional schools. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is highly revered, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health is renowned for contributions worldwide to preventive medicine and the health of large populations. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (simply referred to as SAIS), located in Washington D.C, is recognized as a world leader in international affairs, diplomacy and government studies. SAIS has international campuses Bologna, Italy.
Joseph John Thomson - He studied engineering at Owen's College, Manchester, and moved on to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1884 he became Cavendish Professor of Physics. In 1890 he married Rose Paget, and he had two children with her. One of his students was Ernest Rutherford, who would later succeed him in the post. Influenced by the work of James Clerk Maxwell, and the discovery of the X-ray, he deduced that cathode rays (see cathode ray tube) existed of negatively charged particles, which he called "corpuscles", and which are now known as electrons. The electron had been posited earlier, by G. Johnstone Stoney, as a unit of charge in electrochemistry, but Thompson realised that it was also a subatomic particle, the first one to be discovered. His discovery was made known in 1897, and caused.
John Abbott College - beautiful of the CEGEP network. The name of each building has historical and/or educational significance: BRITTAIN: Dr. W. H. Brittain was Vice Principal of Macdonald College and the building honours his memory. CASGRAIN: Named in honour of Senator Thérèse Casgrain, an advocate of women's rights. HERZBERG: Named after Gerhard Herzberg, a Canadian who won the Nobel Prize for Physics. HOCHELAGA: This is the native name for Montreal. The building honours the native people of Canada. PENFIELD: Wilder Penfield for whom the building is named was a famous Montreal neurosurgeon. STEWART: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stewart were benefactors to Macdonald College and the building was named to honour their memory. Over 5,000 students are enrolled in the Day Division and about 2,000 in the Continuing Education Division. As one of 47 CEGEPs.
