The Nobel Committees are working overtime to frustrate my predictions this year.
Two Europeans won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Albert Fert, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, and Peter Grünberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, won for the discovery of “giant magnetoresistance.”
It’s called one of the first real applications of nanotechnology. Here’s an explanation from IBM’s website, of how the discovery affects new hard drive technologies. This is the basic technology for the working of your hard drive.
Go see the press release from the Nobel Foundation. Video of the announcement ceremony should be available here, later today.
Score so far this year: Five awards, one person schooled in the U.S, by Quaker schools, not public schools. My predictions that the awards go to U.S. citizens schooled in the public schools are not doing well, so far this year. Is the trend over already?
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US schools trend–
I read several years ago that the trend had shifted away from the US. While the Nobelists were technically “Americans” many or most were naturalized citizens and/or US trained only at the graduate level.
Don’t remember the source, however.
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