Chapter
The Challenges of Making Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries
22:52 - 29:49 (06:57)
The process of going from idea to experiment may not be as challenging as assembling all the assets required for a major scientific discovery announcement, which may also come with personal ambitions of receiving a Nobel Prize.
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Radio astronomer Tony Wong discusses the difficulty of building the telescope that was able to cool down to a temperature that’s 10 times lower than the temperature of interstellar space in order to map large areas of the sky with carbon monoxide lines.
22:52 - 24:53 (02:01)
Summary
Radio astronomer Tony Wong discusses the difficulty of building the telescope that was able to cool down to a temperature that’s 10 times lower than the temperature of interstellar space in order to map large areas of the sky with carbon monoxide lines.
ChapterThe Challenges of Making Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries
Episode#051 - Dr Brian Keating - Losing The Nobel Prize
PodcastModern Wisdom
The discovery of the Higgs Boson Particle was announced at a Harvard press conference on March 17th, 2014, with Nobel laureates and other scientists in attendance.
24:53 - 29:49 (04:56)
Summary
The discovery of the Higgs Boson Particle was announced at a Harvard press conference on March 17th, 2014, with Nobel laureates and other scientists in attendance. However, there may have been non-scientific forces at work, such as the obsession with winning the Nobel Prize.