who is the latest noble prize winner in physics?
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1/2 of the Prize To Roy J. Glauber USA "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"\n1/4 of Prize each to John L. Hall USA and Theodor W. Hansch Germany "for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"
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http://www.physicstoday.org/jobs/
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there are infinite many states of matter but scientists have discovered a few of them. . .
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Harish Chandra Verma is a well-known Indian nuclear experimental physicist and educationist whose chief interest lies in Condensed Matter and Materials Applications. He is also interested in Earth Science problems, such as meteorites and extinction boundaries. Verma is famous for his book, Concepts of Physics, Part 1 and Part 2, a general reading Physics textbook at intermediate level that is useful for a good understanding. Currently, he is writing a text book on Quantum Mechanics.\n\nVerma obtained his doctoral degree at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, working under the supervision of Professor G.N. Rao. He subsequently worked as a lecturer and then Reader at Patna University in India. Presently he is working on nanocrystalline magnetic materials and alloy systems at the Physics department of IIT Kanpur where he joined in 1994.\n\nVerma is doing much to spread awareness about India's cultural values, ancient heritage and advancements through his lectures and other means. A believer in fair opportunitiy for all deserving students, he is opposed to Congress's recent proposal for a 49% reservation. He is aiming for a better experiment-based and intuitive education at school as well as at college level through his a "School Physics Project".\n\nYou can share your views with in his homepage\n\nhttp://home.iitk.ac.in/~hcverma/index.htm
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This is a classic example of the strategy followed by Nobel committee in awarding the prize. Theories are not given nobel prize. Experimental proof for validating or invalidating existing theories deserve a better consideration. It is for this he did not get a prize for the the theory of relativity. He did get a prize for experimentally proving phenomenon of photovoltaic emission.
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/surten.html
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From jacko's response, I wanted to clear something up.  He did not win the nobel prize for relativity.  He won it his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905.  Unfortunately a large number of people believe he got the nobel prize for this and wanted to make sure what you said didn't propagate this even more.  He was a great man and did many more things for the field of physics than just relativity, several of which made numerous advances by other physicists possible.
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I do not know you that well yet...............\n\n\nHow about a physics question or something challenging?
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There is, though, a Nobel Prize in Physics. Winners for the past 100 years can be found at the site below, as for whether any are from Africa, it's up to you. I find it unlikely, due to the fact that the majority of cutting-edge Physics work requires huge amounts of capital, something more likely to occur in more-Westernized countries.
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Yes, Andrew Wiles proved it a few years ago. He won the Wolf Prize in 1995-96.
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"god does not play dice" has been attributed to eintein but he was in fact misquoted on that issue. quantum mechanics and relativity being unified is the most important thing physics has been looking for since the discovery of quantum mechanics.It is unnerving that one set of laws applies to all matter but at a microscopic level a completely diderent set of "rules" apply
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Good question. However I can say that not one it the world of physics has gotten this one right Yet.
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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (November 7, 1888-November 21, 1970) was an Indian physicist. He was born in Tiruchirapalli, in Tamil Nadu. At an early age Raman moved to the city of Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He completed his BA and MA in Physics and English from Presidency College, Madras. He joined the Indian Civil Services as an Assistant Accountant General in Calcutta (now Kolkata).\nRaman was a professor of Physics at the Calcutta University for the next fifteen years. It was here that his work on optics got recognized.\n\nRaman won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him. Raman spectroscopy is named after him for it uses this effect. It was the first time that an Indian scholar who studied wholly in India received the Nobel Prize.\n\nIn 1934, Raman became director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In 1949, he established the Raman Research Institute.\n\nHe was knighted in 1929 and awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1954.\n\nCV Raman is the uncle of Nobel Prize Physics winner Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
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Stephen Hawking - see http://www.washington.edu/doit/Press/hawking3.html\n\nand \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_hawkin\n\nI hope this helps - Good Luck!!!
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1- Albert Eienstien ( His work in explaining the electrophotonic cell based on quantum mechanics)...note: this is not his greatest work, the theory of relativity is more important but it was not understandable by other scientists that time.\n\n2- Maxwell ( His work in establish the Electromagnetic Theory ).\n\n3- NIELS BOHR (for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them)\n\n4- WERNER HEISENBERG (for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen)\n\n5-  WOLFGANG PAULI (for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle)
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Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell was given the noble prize for their discovery of "G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells".
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if i had to venture a guess, i would say carl sagan...am i close?????\n\nok, maybe not carl sagan, how about walter cronkite, possibly in walter cronkites universe???