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What is the name of this physicist?
vlad777:
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.
DrG:
--- Quote from: vlad777 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.
Many thanks.
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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
vlad777:
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.
JustMeHere:
Higgs Boson possibly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
penfold:
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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