{"id":272,"date":"2005-10-04T07:18:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T11:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=272"},"modified":"2005-10-18T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T13:19:01","slug":"nobel-prize-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like I was right to not try and guess this year&#8217;s Nobel Prize, since it has been awarded for work in an area of physics I know nothing about.  None of the commenters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=260\">here<\/a> managed to guess correctly either.  The prize goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/physics\/laureates\/2005\/press.html\">Glauber, Hall and H&auml;nsch<\/a> for work in the field of optics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.harvard.edu\/people\/facpages\/glauber.html\">Roy Glauber<\/a> is 80 years old now, and taught the first quantum field theory course I ever took.  At the time I was an undergraduate at Harvard and the course was way over my head.  All I remember from it now is that it involved a lot of writing down and manipulating long formulas involving mode expansions and annihilation and creation operators.  I did end up with some facility in doing this, but didn&#8217;t much understand what it all meant.  Buried somewhere in my office should be notes for that course, perhaps I&#8217;ll try and dig them up and take a look at them, since I suspect I can probably now appreciate much better what Glauber was trying to teach than I could way back then.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Glauber, Hall and H&auml;nsch!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b>  <a href=\" http:\/\/hongbaozhang.blog.edu.cn\">Hongbao Zhang<\/a> didn&#8217;t guess the prize winner&#8217;s names, but he did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=260#comment-5006\">correctly guess<\/a> that it would go to physicists in the field of quantum optics. Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like I was right to not try and guess this year&#8217;s Nobel Prize, since it has been awarded for work in an area of physics I know nothing about. None of the commenters here managed to guess &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}