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Nobel Prize in Physics

Marie Curie's X-ray car in World War I. Photo: French National Library

The first X-ray mobiles - Marie Curie's war

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With the approach of the German army to Paris, Marie Curie was forced to retrain in the absence of the ability to research radium. She came up with an idea - to equip vehicles with X-ray devices and bring them close to the front to better diagnose the wounded soldiers. Even the concept of an ambulance did not exist yet

Fundamental concepts in quantum physics: Bell's inequality - which was the basis of the Nobel Prize

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Inspired by the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, we will discuss Bell's theorem without introducing formulas and inequalities. In this article we will illustrate how experiments with entangled particles contradict the assumption that there are hidden variables and that quantum mechanics is indeed reliable.
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Spin-glass: the quantum physics behind the discovery that won Frisee the Nobel

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The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this year to Giorgio LaFerrisi for his scientific contribution in understanding complex systems alongside climate researchers. The prize committee decided to focus on the solution he proposed to the spin-glass problem on the grounds that this model is able to explain many phenomena outside the physics of materials. What is a spin-glass phase and what is Frizi's contribution to the theory?
Prof. Reinhart Genzel at the Parnell Observatory, part of the Southern European Observatory project in Chela. PR photo, ESO

Nobel laureate Reinhart Ganzel is a great friend of Israeli science

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Says Prof. Hagai Netzer from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University who wrote dozens of joint articles with Ganzel
Star S2 orbiting the black hole at the center of the galaxy - Sagittarius (Sagittarius) *A, one of the proofs for the existence of the black hole at the center of the galaxy, from the research of 2020 Nobel Prize winners Reinhart Ganzel and Andrea Gas. From Wikipedia. By ESO/M. Kornmesser - https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1825b/ , CC BY 1825, Link

"Without the observations of Ganzel and Gas, the whole subject of black holes would have remained theoretical"

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life in the universe Illustration: shutterstock

It would be strange if no sign of biological life was found given the fact that there are so many planets

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The location of the planet pegasi-51b, the first planet discovered outside the solar system. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

The discovery of planets outside the solar system - changed our perception of the universe

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In this map, built on the basis of the observations of the Planck spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency, you can see the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the earliest observable light of the universe, and it gives us the best picture ever of the universe in its early childhood. The blue areas in the sky represent points where the temperature of the background radiation, and in any case also of the early universe, is lower, and the red areas reflect warmer places. Proponents of the inflationary theory, which holds that the universe expanded rapidly in its early moments, argue that the pattern of hot and cold spots is consistent with this idea. However, the theory can actually produce any pattern, and in most of its versions it produces larger temperature differences than this map shows. Moreover, if inflation did occur, the background radiation should include evidence for cosmic gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime caused by the primordial stretch, but it does not. Instead, the Planck data reveal that the true story of our universe's history is still far from over. Source: ESA and the Planck Collaboration.

Nobel laureate Prof. Peebles revealed the secrets behind cosmic radiation

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Simulation of Pegasi 51b - a gas giant that orbits a star similar to our sun, but very close to it, which gives it and others like it the nickname "hot Jupiter". Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The science of planets outside the solar system is flourishing thanks to the genius of Michel Mayor, and the device he built

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Nobel Prize winners in physics James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didia Kello. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

The discoverers of the first planet outside the solar system and the key to the cosmological theory were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Laser eye surgery, one of the applications of the discoveries of the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. Photo: shutterstock

Nobel Prize in Physics to three researchers for significant breakthroughs in optical physics

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From right to left: Prof. Emeritus Rainer Weiss, Ian Driver (brother of Prof. Emeritus Ronald Driver), Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie and Prof. Emeritus Kip Stefan Thorn. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson.

From the Harvey Prize at the Technion - to the Nobel Prize in Stockholm

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Simulation of the merger of two black holes, the existence of which was indicated by the gravitational waves recorded by LIGO in 2017. Source: The SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project.

Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves

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The aggregation states of the substance. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize in Physics for discoverers of the special states of matter

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A deep perceptual change. Macdonald (right) and Kajita. Photos: Nobel Prize website

What a class, I have an essay! – Nobel Prize in Physics for the scientists who revealed the secrets of neutrinos

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The neutrino particles exchange identity between the electron neutrino, tau neutrino and muon neutrino. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

Two researchers who separately discovered that neutrinos have mass won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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An explanation of the symmetry breaking after the big bang. Illustration: CERN

Here he is finally here! The "divine particle" - a popular explanation of the Higgs boson

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Prof. Francois Engler, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. From Wikipedia

Prof. Francois Engler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is also a researcher at the Tel Aviv School of Physics * Prof. Rabinovitch's response from Hebrew on the Nobel: Justice has been done

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A possible discovery with the ATLAS detector shows the traces of four muons (in red) created by the decay of the short-lived Higgs boson [http://cds.cern.ch/record/1459496]

Recording: The announcement of Nobel Prize winners in physics Peter Higgs and Francois Engler

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The "god particle" or maybe the cursed particle. Illustration: shutterstock

The difficult choice for the Nobel Prize in Physics: Discoveries of planets outside the solar system or the existence of the Higgs boson?

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The paradox of Schrödinger's cat, from the Nobel Prize presentation on the prize committee's website

Schrödinger's cat resurrected as particles in the laboratories of the 2012 Nobel Prize winners in physics

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Prof. Serge Harosh, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics for Pioneers in the Field of Quantum Optics: Serge Herosh and David Weinland

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The universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. Image: NASA

Third Nobel Prize in Cosmology

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Milestones in the expansion of the universe. From Wikipedia

The cold end of the universe

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The Cosmological Constant: Einstein's Serious Mistake That Led to the Nobel Prize in Physics Part II

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