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Offline vlad777Topic starter

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What is the name of this physicist?
« on: May 21, 2021, 08:47:59 pm »
What was the name of the physicist who conviced a laboratory to do his experiment and then the lab director got the nobel prize?
I think his discovery was a particle. I think I saw this on BBC and the presenter was Jim Al-Khalili or someone like that (Brian Cox?).
I also remember a scene (in the  lab) where they record a computer screen, with a spike in the chart ,which is the proof.

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Re: What is the name of this physicist?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2021, 09:14:06 pm »
What was the name of the physicist who conviced a laboratory to do his experiment and then the lab director got the nobel prize?
I think his discovery was a particle. I think I saw this on BBC and the presenter was Jim Al-Khalili or someone like that (Brian Cox?).
I also remember a scene (in the  lab) where they record a computer screen, with a spike in the chart ,which is the proof.

Many thanks.

Are you thinking of Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell?

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/645257118/in-1974-they-gave-the-nobel-to-her-supervisor-now-shes-won-a-3-million-prize
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Offline vlad777Topic starter

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Re: What is the name of this physicist?
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2021, 09:20:53 pm »
I don't think so. I think it was a man.

Also , everything was by the book. The rules were wierd and the director got the (Nobel ) prize.
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Re: What is the name of this physicist?
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Re: What is the name of this physicist?
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2021, 08:54:39 pm »
Any more clues? Was it a fairly recent discovery?

The trouble is with a lot of particle physics... the results are mostly blips/spikes in a graph (Higgs' maybe more a blip than a spike though  ;)) and they mostly rely on big complex experiments and have to share credit.

Until we find out the real answer, can I claim to be half-correct and guess Schrödinger?
 

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Re: What is the name of this physicist?
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2021, 11:21:31 am »

I figured it out, because I remembered it was about a carbon isotope.

Fred Hoyle and Triple-alpha process.
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