Tag Archives: nobel prize

(Don’t) Respect my Authority

Posted on 13/04/2013 by Jon Butterworth

A venue, a role, an award, can lend authority. But it’s only a loan. At the Guardian.

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Nobel prize in physics: it’s not too soon for a Higgs boson to win it

Posted on 09/10/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Quantum Fields and Missing Quotes

Posted on 19/06/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 5.6 of Smashing Physics.

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Murray Gell-Mann on ditching what ‘everybody knows’

Posted on 24/10/2010 by Jon Butterworth

He started from the patterns of particles created by cosmic rays, took a name from James Joyce, and changed the way we see fundamental physics. Video at The Guardian.

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