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By: symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Particle physics Peeps, oh my!

symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Particle physics Peeps, oh my! — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:04:22 +0000

[...] a look at two of their photos featuring the 2008 Nobel Prize ceremony and Enrico Fermi, who worked at the University of Chicago and gave his namesake to Fermilab [...]

By: symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Landmark papers: breaking parity symmetry

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:25:07 +0000

[...] The most recent in the American Physical Society’s series of Physical Review Focus Landmark stories is about the experimental discovery of broken parity symmetry in a range of physical systems. That discovery was a precursor to later discovery of the breaking of both charge and parity, work which was recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physics this year. [...]

By: David Harris

David Harris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:13:14 +0000

@Tisserand: It is always hard to decide where to decide to draw the line about what is relevant. I could have included all particle-physics-relevant Nobel Prizes and included the ones you mention. Instead I decided to just choose ones that were more directly associated with the work recognized in this year’s Prize.

By: Tisserand

Tisserand — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:38:14 +0000

I am surprised by your “other relevant Nobel prize in Physics”, firts not only particle physics exists but if it is what you talk about: Were the following Nobel Prize in (Particle) Physics not relevant ?:

# 1968 – Luis Alvarez

# 1976 – Burton Richter, Samuel C.C. Ting

# 1984 – Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer

# 1988 – Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger

# 1992 – Georges Charpak

# 1995 – Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines

By: David Harris

David Harris — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:21:54 +0000

@A. Reader: Quite right – that’s what I get for writing rapidly at 3am! Thanks for the correction. I have fixed it in the text.

By: A. Reader

A. Reader — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:15:21 +0000

Yang, Lee got their prize for parity (P) violation not CP
violation. I believe they assumed or postulated that
CP is conserved.

The entry for Cronin-Fitch should be for the discovery
of CP violation.