Tag: Nobel Prize

• Can the Nobel Prize be fixed?

  Yesterday, the 2019 Nobel Prizes were awarded, but the lack of women science laureates was both predictable and conspicuous. As I point out in my new comic with Maki Naro for Vox, only 19 women have won Nobels in chemistry, medicine/physiology, and physics out of 607 total awardees — a far lower rate than the…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 11, 2019

  Vox

  Nobel Prize, scientists behaving badly, sexism, social justice

• A Nobel Prize curmudgeon speaks out

  The Nobel Prizes recognize good scientific achievements, but in many ways the attention they get is disproportionate to their value, and presents a false view of how science really works. Part of the problem instead is that the Nobel Prizes perpetuate the idea of a handful of Great Men (only two women have won the…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 10, 2012

  Galileo’s Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites

  how science is done, Nobel Prize, scientists

• Trapping particles leads to 2012 Nobel Prize in physics

  The the winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics were announced this morning: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland. Their work involves trapping and measuring the quantum states of photons and ions, respectively: A major challenge is measuring the state of a quantum system without modifying it. On the macroscopic scale, we can generally…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 9, 2012

  Galileo’s Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites

  Nobel Prize, quantum measurement, quantum mechanics