>Date: 24 Sep 1999 22:28:57 -0000 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "-PhysicsWeb-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: IoP >Subject: Latest PhysicsWeb Summaries (text) > > ---------------------------------------------------------- >/ PHYSICSWEB: E-mail alert >\ (http://PhysicsWeb.org) > ========================================================== > ---------------------------------------------------------- >| News > ========================================================== > * Who will win this year's Nobel Prize?: (24 Sep) > On October 12 the Nobel > Foundation will announce the winners of the 1999 Nobel Prize for > Physics. Who do you think will win? Will the prize be > awarded for the discovery of the top quark, Bose-Einstein > condensation, the gluon, the semiconductor laser, the > anisotropy in the cosmic background radiation, the > geometric phase, experiments on Bell's inequalities, > neutrino oscillations, giant magnetoresistance, > quasicrystals, molecular beam epitaxy, quantum > chromodynamics or something else? Please send us up to > three names and tell us in less than 100 words why you > think they deserve the prize. The closing date for > submissions is Wednesday October 6. PhysicsWeb will > publish a summary of your suggestions on Friday October > 8. > [ http://PhysicsWeb.org/article/news/3/9/7 ] > ---------------------------------------------------------- > * Chandra delights astronomers: (24 Sep) > The Chandra X-ray observatory has revealed previously > unobserved features in the remnants of three supernova > explosions. Two of the images show the enormous shell > structures produced by the explosions, as well as the > vast quantities of energetic particles emitted by a > rapidly rotating neutron star at the remnant of the > explosion. The third reveals puzzling spoke-like > structures in its interior. > [ http://PhysicsWeb.org/article/news/3/9/8 ] > ---------------------------------------------------------- > * Can spin fluctuations explain superconductivity?: (24 > Sep) > The mechanism responsible for high-temperature > superconductivity is one of the biggest unsolved problems > in physics. Superconductors lose all resistance to > electric current below their superconducting transition > temperature, which can be as high as 150 Kelvin for > high-temperature superconductors. Now three physicists > are claiming that interactions between the charge > carriers in the material and fluctuations in the spins of > the atoms play a major role in high-temperature > superconductivity (Nature 401 354). > [ http://PhysicsWeb.org/article/news/3/9/9 ] > ---------------------------------------------------------- > * Correction: Evidence for supersymmetry found: (24 > Sep) > This story should have made clear that it was Francesco > Iachello of Yale University in the US who first proposed > that it would be possible to see the effects of > supersymmetry in the nucleus. See > http://physicsweb.org/article/news/3/8/9/1 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------- >/ This alert was generated according to your settings. >| To change your alerting settings visit User Options at >\ http://PhysicsWeb.org/users/options/alert > ========================================================== > >Copyright (C)IOP Publishing Ltd. 1999. All rights reserved. >
