The Nobel prize

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Oct 09, 2001 6:26 am

Posted by C E -

LOL And before trying the method on DP, she tried it on herself

ROFLMAO!

How does that old adage go? I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Oct 09, 2001 6:47 am

@Ysh: LOL

Here's the laureates in Physics, 3 guys who have achived the Bose-Einstein condensation in gases

[url="http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2001/press.html"]http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2001/press.html[/url]

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Tue Oct 09, 2001 7:00 am

BTW a twenty is a $20.00 bill, equivalent to twenty dollars, two thousand pennies.

"I'm sorry we can't accept you on this job..."
*pulls a fifty*
"I'm sorry but we really can't..."
*pulls a twenty*
">=) Welcome to the job",

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Tue Oct 09, 2001 8:58 am

Originally posted by C Elegans:
@Ysh: LOL

Here's the laureates in Physics, 3 guys who have achived the Bose-Einstein condensation in gases
[url="http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2001/press.html"]http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2001/press.html[/url]

Cool!

I remember reading about that in...Scientific American, I think it was. Either SciAm, PopSci, or Discover. I can't remember which.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Tue Oct 09, 2001 3:36 pm

Originally posted by Shadow Sandrock:
BTW a twenty is a $20.00 bill, equivalent to twenty dollars, two thousand pennies.

"I'm sorry we can't accept you on this job..."
*pulls a fifty*
"I'm sorry but we really can't..."
*pulls a twenty*
">=) Welcome to the job",

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 4:19 am

If I don’t win a Nobel Peace Prize this year I WILL KILL SOMEONE!

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 4:24 am

....

Righty-o....

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 4:46 am

See? With Aegis putting in a good word for me (and maybe slipping some 20s) I’m a shoe in! (Finally, it's all coming up Kayless! MUWHAHAHAHA!!)

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:23 am

...and today, the laureates of the Nobel prize in chemistry were announced. 3 people get it for the development of catalytic asymmetric synthesis - very important for making important medicines.
[url="http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2001/press.html"]http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2001/press.html[/url]

McBane · Post by **McBane** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:30 am

The prize amount was listed "SEK 10 million".

Is that swedish currency?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:32 am

Originally posted by Kayless:
See? With Aegis putting in a good word for me (and maybe slipping some 20s) I?m a shoe in! (Finally, it's all coming up Kayless! MUWHAHAHAHA!!)

Now you only need some votes...this year, I think some 140 people were nominated, some Norweigan MP nominated Fidel Castro

Someone else nominated a football player.
I do believe Kofi Annan is a hotter candidate than any of those

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:41 am

Originally posted by McBane:
The prize amount was listed "SEK 10 million".
Is that swedish currency?

Yes, SEK = Swedish Krona

10 million SEK equals about 950 000 $US.

It's of course a small sum of money in the context, but getting the Nobel prize means a lot not only as acknowledgement, it also means you won't have any more trouble funding your research in the future

McBane · Post by **McBane** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:43 am

One of the winners is 84 years old.

I hope I have the mental capacity to feed myself at 84!

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 7:37 am

Originally posted by McBane:
One of the winners is 84 years old.

I hope I have the mental capacity to feed myself at 84!

Maybe Knowles can't feed himself

The pioneer work he is awarded for was first done in the late 1960's. It's often like this, you might not know how important a scientific discovery is when it happens, only later research show what impact it has. Thus, it may take many years before the implications of a discovery is understood.

I also hope I can feed myself at 84.

But when you and I are 84, at least we most certainly won't have to fear Alzheimer.

(Unless you are 83 now)

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Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 2:34 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
Yes, SEK = Swedish Krona

10 million SEK equals about 950 000 $US.

It's of course a small sum of money in the context, but getting the Nobel prize means a lot not only as acknowledgement, it also means you won't have any more trouble funding your research in the future

Hey CE, $950 000 is actually a lot of money... even if it's divided...

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 5:10 pm

Originally posted by Aegis:
Hey CE, $950 000 is actually a lot of money... even if it's divided...

Sure it's a lot of money! I meant small in the context of what research of the type that most people get Nobel prizes for costs...

I work in a comparatively small lab, we are about 35 people specialised in different areas. Our old lab cost about $8 millions, and the new equipment we installed during this year, cost about $2.5 million.

Do you remember last years Physics prize winners, the semiconduction guys? Now, a lab where you can perform the kind of research they had done, would need equipment for like $500 millions.

And they you all the running expenses. Research is very expensive

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 5:20 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
Sure it's a lot of money! I meant small in the context of what research of the type that most people get Nobel prizes for costs...

I work in a comparatively small lab, we are about 35 people specialised in different areas. Our old lab cost about $8 millions, and the new equipment we installed during this year, cost about $2.5 million.

Do you remember last years Physics prize winners, the semiconduction guys? Now, a lab where you can perform the kind of research they had done, would need equipment for like $500 millions.

And they you all the running expenses. Research is very expensive

And this is why I must become rich. I plan on doing as much of my research as I can on my own without relying on government grants and such.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:34 pm

I want to be rich too, just not have to work for it... in other words, my dad better get working hard!

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 7:30 pm

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
And this is why I must become rich. I plan on doing as much of my research as I can on my own without relying on government grants and such.

I recently read somewhere that the cost of a linear collsion high energy particle accelerator would be about $6 billion.
I don't know how much the new CERN LHC will be, but it's said to be in a similar region.

Detection of the Higgs boson and other, unknown particles that are believed to occur when matter and antimatter collide, is an expensive business. But it's most probably the only way to go if we want to understand what happened during the Big Bang (or rather, the nanoseconds after) and if we want to unify the 4 forces.

What a pity we can't collide electrons and positrons at home in the kitchen

posted by Aegis:
I want to be rich too, just not have to work for it... in other words, my dad better get working hard!

I see only one solution to your and SS common problem - marry Bill Gates

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Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Oct 10, 2001 8:04 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
I recently read somewhere that the cost of a linear collsion high energy particle accelerator would be about $6 billion.
I don't know how much the new CERN LHC will be, but it's said to be in a similar region.

Detection of the Higgs boson and other, unknown particles that are believed to occur when matter and antimatter collide, is an expensive business. But it's most probably the only way to go if we want to understand what happened during the Big Bang (or rather, the nanoseconds after) and if we want to unify the 4 forces.

What a pity we can't collide electrons and positrons at home in the kitchen

posted by Aegis:
[qb]I want to be rich too, just not have to work for it... in other words, my dad better get working hard!


I see only one solution to your and SS common problem - marry Bill Gates

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I dunno... bill Gates... Microsoft... hmm... I think It'd be better if I earned it...