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LECTURE 43
     questions before lecture

think about these

  • Name the six areas in which a Nobel Prize is awarded.
  • What did Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics for?
  • Who all (3 years) won it for superconductivity?
  • Who (2 years) won the Nobel Chemistry prize for something we studied?
  • Name three parent-child Nobel winners (one child was Chemistry).
  • What physicist won it twice? For what?
  • Which of these didn't win it? Pauli, Dirac, Schrodinger, Goudsmit and Unlenbeck.
  • What was the sad thing about the prize for the electron microscope (given jointly for the scanning tunneling microscope)?
  • What international industrial research lab produced two Nobel prizes in the 1980's?

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