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All Eyes on the 2025 Nobel Prizes: What You Need to Know

Vanessa Kallas, 07/10 18:55 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

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The 2025 Nobel Prizes have officially begun, with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarding the prizes for medicine on Monday and physics on Tuesday. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Medicine Prize for discoveries on immune system function, while John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis received the ...

Trio Wins Physics Nobel for Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling

This is Beirut, 07/10 13:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said. The trio was honoured "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit," the jury said. Quantum mechanics ...

Einstein, 70 Years On: The Man Who Redefined the Universe and Human Consciousness

Karl Hajj Moussa, 18/04 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In 1905, a young and relatively unknown physicist was quietly working in a patent office in Bern, unaware that he would forever alter the course of science. That year, Albert Einstein, born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany, without prestigious titles or academic acclaim, published a series of scientific papers that would gradually challenge everything ...

Nobel Prize in Physics: A New Era Beyond Human Intelligence

Alain E. Andrea, 2024-10-08 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to British-Canadian John Hopfield (born 1933) and American Geoffrey Hinton (born 1947) for their fundamental discoveries that paved the way for "machine learning" through "artificial neural networks." Their work, conducted since the 1980s, highlights the importance of theoretical physics in the rise ...

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