{"id":5184,"date":"2012-10-08T19:30:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2012-10-09T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:41:57","slug":"physics-nobel-prize-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5184","title":{"rendered":"Physics Nobel Prize 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had decided to retire from the Nobel Prize prediction business at the top of my game after my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/archives\/000084.html\">first prediction<\/a> soon after this blog was started.  I haven&#8217;t heard anything about what tomorrow&#8217;s announcement will be, but did just notice something that gave me pause, this quote in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmosmagazine.com\/news\/6042\/higgs-discovery-creates-nobel-headache\">Cosmos magazine article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing stopping us from giving the prize to an organisation. But it has not been the custom in the scientific prizes,&#8221; said Lars Bergstroem, secretary of the committee for the Nobel physics prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Nobel Peace Prize has often been awarded to organisations. But in the science prizes we have tried to find the most prize-worthy individuals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there really is nothing but custom to keep them from awarding the Nobel this year to ATLAS, CMS, and CERN for the Higgs, I can&#8217;t see a better occasion to break with the custom, and they&#8217;ve had a long time to decide whether or not to do this. So, here&#8217;s a (probably wrong&#8230;) prediction for tomorrow: ATLAS, CMS and CERN as Nobelists.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>:  As predicted, that prediction was wrong: the prize went to Haroche and Wineland for work manipulating individual quantum states.  Maybe next year for the Higgs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had decided to retire from the Nobel Prize prediction business at the top of my game after my first prediction soon after this blog was started. I haven&#8217;t heard anything about what tomorrow&#8217;s announcement will be, but did just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5184","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\/5184","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=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}