Quote of the week, from Emeritus Professor Marshall Stoneham, President of the Institute of Physics (IOP), noting that "carbon wins again":
"Diamonds may be a girl's best friend but graphene gives an unexpected and a wholly new way to put the electron in carbon country; bringing a whole new range of applications..." Who said romance is dead? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org ------------------------------------------------ From: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Cc: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 2:24:59 PM Subject: [tips] The First Individual To Win The Noble AND The IgNoble Prize Yes, Tipsters with physics envy should be getting really frustrated now that Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have won the 2010 Noble Prize in Physics; see: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/10/2010-physis-nobel-prize-reaction-round-up/1 However, Andre Geim, as noted at the end of the above article, had previously won the 2000 IgNoble Prize for research that involved levitating frogs -- don't take my word for that, the IgNoble Prize folks seem delighted to shout Geim's praises; see: http://improbable.com/2010/10/05/geim-becomes-first-nobel-ig-nobel-winner/ So, who will be the first psychologically oriented Nobel Prize winner to also win the IgNoble Prize? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=5422 or send a blank email to leave-5422-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
