Nobel Prize

SLAC’s Burton Richter and MIT’s Samuel Ting at a SLAC symposium in 1984, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the J/psi discovery. On 11 November, 1974, two research teams announced they had independently of each other discovered a new subatomic particle, J/psi. While the teams performed their experiments, the J/psi popped up as a bump in…

Peter Howitt receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025. Peter Howitt lecturing at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2025. The 2025 economic sciences laureates gathered on stage after their prize lectures at Stockholm University, 8 December 2025. Economic sciences laureate Peter…