2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
From the press release:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to
John C. Mather
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA,and
George F. Smoot
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA“for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”.
手头上正好有俞永强的热大爆炸宇宙学, 翻开一看, 竟然有一章详细的介绍宇宙微波背景辐射(cosmic microwave background radiation), 里面还提到了1989年NASA发射的COBE(COsmic Background Explorer)卫星, Mather和Smoot的主要结果都是由COBE完成的. 唉, 想当年选这门课的时候, 就去了第一节课和最后一节. 记得考试的那天, 在文史楼一楼的那间阶梯教室, 开考前五分钟, 进来一对男女, 坐下, 发现四周同学都在忙着背书, 一问才知道今天考试, 接着又走了出去…
three comments:
1. COBE的那个黑体辐射数据, 是我见过的理论和实验最吻合的数据.
2. 浏览到Mather的主页, 他的介绍是: 1974 Ph.D. (Physics), Univ. of California at Berkeley (4.0 GPA), 呵呵, 很少看到把GPA放上去的.
3. 终于明白了最近网上流行的一个类似卡通的图的来源.
这个网站有不少蛮不错的漫画, http://www.xkcd.com/.
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Mon, Dec 25, 2006 @ 2:46 am
[...] the nobel prize in physics for 2006 went to cosmologists for the discovery of the black-body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. [...]