Israeli scientist among 3 predicted to win Nobel Prize for physics
Yakir Aharonov, who discovered the quantum mechanical Aharonov-Bohm effect, appears on Reuters list of Nobel predictions.
By Ofri Ilani Tags: Israel newsIsraeli physicist Professor Yakir Aharonov of Tel Aviv University has been included in the list of 25 candidates to be considered for a Nobel Prize, as projected by the news agency Reuters.
The list includes likely candidates for the prize in all the sciences - medicine, chemistry, physics and economics ? and Aharonov is among the three names listed for the physics prize.
Reuters has developed a list of likely winners since 1989. The list is compiled every year by David Pendlebury, who is considered an expert on predicting Nobel Prize laureates. The prediction process relies mainly on the number of times an individual is cited and the significance of the individual's scientific articles.
The winners of the Nobel Prize will be announced starting Tuesday.
Aharonov said Saturday that he has been "mentioned as a Nobel Prize candidate for several years, but this is the first time that I appear on an objective list based on citations, alongside the most revered scientists in the world."
The scientific phenomenon that could win Aharonov the coveted prize was discovered 50 years ago, and has been named the Aharonov-Bohm effect, named after Aharonov and his mentor, physicist David Bohm. It describes a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which a particle is able to "feel" a distant force.
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with Swiss , because any hint of an Arab Nobel Prize possibility is a joke . He is just mentioning one possible case for it , that is the invention of a suicide belt . Nobody thought about it before .
that I appreciated your sense of humor , which has an element of truth in it .
must be something in in the Swiss air that make's the gov and the people talk giberish???Noble price is given for Peace and giving Arafat one that was a Swiss joke!!and giving price for bomb belt is a another Swiss joke;))).It looks like the Swiss has taken over, no more Irish jokes now Swiss jokes???
Professor Aharonov was born in 1932 in Palestine, thus is a "PAL"
I say this with great respect for David Bohm and his student Yakir Aharonov. Will Dr. Bohm also be awarded posthumously? Is John Bell mentioned? Non-local reality is astounding. Why is Kurt Godel's proof of the absence of time never credited. It can't be disproven yet the great Steven Hawking says, "It's wrong anyway." Seems a little political. Salaam/Shalom
The (apparent) fact that there is no Nobel Prize for suicide belt construction is (further) proof of oppression... Could it (possibly) be that the Nobel Prize is controlled by (right-wing) Jews...??? I'm afraid it (may well) be...:)