The story is not about the Nobel prizes have far-reaching influence in history
The noble award recognizes the great merits of individuals who have contributed to this mankind with a history of over 100 years.
The Nobel Prize is a collection of international awards that are awarded annually since 1901 to individuals who have achieved achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics and peace. Especially the peace prize can be given to organizations or individuals. In 1968, according to the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, the Swedish Bank added a prize to the field of economic science.
1. Stefan Hell, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
In 2014, Stefan Hell, a Romanian-German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was credited with inventing "super-resolution fluorescence microscope" . But Stefan did not expect that his discovery then upset a fundamental law of physics and made scientists feel crazy about having to explain this law again.
2. Serge Haroche, Nobel Prize for Physics 2012
Confined photons into a box, this utopian project was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics. (Image source: nature video).
In 2012, French physicist Serge Haroche was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking experimental methods that measure the activity of individual quantum systems". In other words, Haroche's work was intended to try to "trap a photon into a box" . It sounds pretty easy but it is still a harder thing to go to the moon at that time.
Haroche's work began the intensive study of the laser spectrum. This is a tool currently used primarily to separate all particle structures in the quantum system, helping physicists to better understand how photons work.
3. Saul Perlmutter, Nobel Prize in Physics 2011
Saul Perlmutter, an American astronomer, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2011 for discovering the rate of expansion of the universe based on the position of supernovae. As Perlmutter explains, his work provides evidence that the universe is expanding faster and faster.
The miracle in this study is that Perlmutter was very fortunate to use a telescope to capture a 10-billion-year-old photon traveling in the universe and create a unique study.
4. Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize in Biology and Medicine, 2009
Elizabeth Blackburn.
Back in 2009, an Australian-American hybrid scientist, Elizabeth Blackburn, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for discovering how chromosomes are protected by telomere and telomerase enzymes.
Elizabeth discovered telomeres when she was conducting research on Tetrahymena - a single-celled organism that lives in mud and sediment. These tiny creatures have helped scientists find out how molecules called telomeres, concentrated on the ends of chromosomes, make them capable of dividing without being damaged. When understanding telomeres protection, this will be the key to slowing down the aging process.
5. Robert Woodrow Wilson, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978
In 1978, Wilson, an American astronomer, won the Nobel Prize for Physics with discoveries in the field of low-temperature physics. Basically, his team discovered the existence of cosmic microwave background radiation . This is also the proof that Big Bang is the beginning of the universe.
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