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2024 Nobel winner Geoffrey Hinton explains what AI has learned, and is still learning, from biological intelligence.
Explore the discovery of the Raman Effect by C.V. Raman, its significance in physics and chemistry, and its modern applications in spectroscopy and material science.
Brooks also travelled and worked with Nobel laureates J.J. Thomson and Marie Curie for short periods. She served on the faculty of New York’s Barnard College from 1904 to 1907, when she married and ...
Aged Sir J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron, is a Nobelman; so is Niels Bohr of Denmark and so was the late Lord Rutherford of England, who formulated atomic structure.
Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, redefined the atomic structure, discovered the proton, and found that atoms weren't indivisible -- ...
The physicist JJ Thomson — another Nobel winner — famously and erroneously proposed that atoms lacked a nucleus, but that doesn’t make his previous discovery of the electron any less important.
When Pierre Curie learnt he was about to share the Nobel Prize for physics with Henri Becquerel for their separate investigations into radioactivity, he insisted that his own laboratory partner ...
The main ideology the Nobel Foundation appears to be committed to, however, is the importance of preserving the prestige of the Nobel Prize—and in this it has succeeded.
Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by The Royal Swedish Academy. Kang’s work focuses on “historical ...