Blogging will be light today, as I’m giving an exam and making another magnet coil. I’ve also been working on getting the Blogger SAT Challenge results ready to go– big roll-out coming soon!– so I haven’t been able to pre-schedule posts. <\/p>\n
All I have time for this morning is a quick follow-up to yesterday’s betting pool post<\/a>, noting some other people trying to guess the winner’s of this year’s dynamite money.<\/p>\n First, guessing the Nobel winners is the topic for this week’s Ask a ScienceBlogger<\/a> (archival link here<\/a>), so you can see what my colleagues have to say. Not much, yet, but maybe they’ll get there.<\/p>\n Next, Thomson Scientific tries to predict likely winners<\/a> based on citation activity (not surprisingly, they run one of the big citation-tracking services). Their suggestions for the Physics prize<\/a>:<\/p>\n From that list, I’d have to go with Fert and Gruenberg, as there hasn’t been a pure condensed matter Nobel for a few years. Lasers and astrophysics have won more recently, so I’d give the condensed matter folks a slight edge on that basis.<\/p>\n They’re also running a poll, which has the laser guys in the lead. The results are still pretty preliminary– last night, cosmology was ahead.<\/p>\n Finally, a dark horse candidate, from my email inbox:<\/p>\n RE: Submission of formal presentation to the Nobel Prize Committee of the Scientific Discovery of the 4th Dimension<\/p>\n To Whom It May Concern<\/p>\n Dear Sir\/Madam,<\/p>\n I am a Physicist (BS 1995), a student at WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY and I have made an important scientific discovery – The 4th Dimension. I will not get into scientific details, but a lot of our science will improve with the acceptance and use of this new discovery.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This was helpfully sent to pretty much everyone in the world with a physics department affiliation, I think. Anybody want to vote for this guy? Uncle Al?<\/p>\n That’s it for now. Off to give an exam– whee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blogging will be light today, as I’m giving an exam and making another magnet coil. I’ve also been working on getting the Blogger SAT Challenge results ready to go– big roll-out coming soon!– so I haven’t been able to pre-schedule posts. All I have time for this morning is a quick follow-up to yesterday’s betting… Continue reading More Nobel Speculation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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