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Light trick: How color photos outshone quantum theory to win 1908 Nobel Prize
When Gabriel Lippmann collected the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics, he did so for an invention he himself admitted was of limited practical use. His method of colour photography, based on optical interference,
Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without requiring a new chip for new colors.
In November 1949 Chien-Shiung Wu and her graduate student, Irving Shaknov, descended to a laboratory below Columbia University’s Pupin Hall. They needed antimatter for a new experiment, so they made their own, using a machine called a cyclotron.
Techniques resulting from the work of Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier let scientists capture the motions of subatomic particles moving at impossible speeds. By Emma Bubola and Katrina Miller The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to ...