Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. Jimmy Carter. Full name: James Earl CarterBorn: 1 October 1924, Plains, GA, USADate awarded: 11 October 2002 An active former president While…

Nobel Prize Conversations How does it feel to be one of the most famous behavioural psychologists of our time? Daniel Kahneman says that it is perfectly fine to be famous as long as you don’t let it go to your head. From an early age, Kahneman was interested in people – he took after his…

On my mother’s side I come from Midlands engineers and on my father’s from tenant farmers near Oxford. As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said. Ted, my father, was an Anglican priest; after serving as an army chaplain in the second…

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Mining Mysterious Particles Raymond Davis Jr and Masatoshi Koshiba, 1/2 of the prize Stars like the Sun shine because they release vast supplies of heat and light as a result of squeezing tiny hydrogen atoms together to produce larger helium atoms. In theory, these fusion reactions also shoot out ghostly particles with almost no mass…

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Raymond Davis Jr’s experiments http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/neutrino.html http://chemfo.chm.bnl.gov/SciandTech/SN/default.htm Masatoshi Koshiba, Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html http://www.aip.org/png/html/super-k.htm Riccardo Giacconi, X-ray astronomy Associated Universities Inc. Introduction in English (pdf) Pictures from the Chandra Telescope NASA About the Satellite observatories “Exploring the Universe – A Festschrift in Honor of Riccardo Giacconi”. (H. Gursky & R. Ruffini, eds.) Rome, Italy,…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information Nationalekonomisk teori har traditionellt byggt på antagandet om en “homo œconomicus” vars handlande styrs av egenintresse och rationalitet. Ekonomi har också setts som en icke-experimentell vetenskap, där forskare – liksom inom astronomi och meteorologi – varit begränsade till data “från fältet”, dvs. direkta observationer av verkligheten. Bilden har dock förändrats under de…

English Information for the Public Traditionally, economic theory has relied on the assumption of a “homo œconomicus”, whose behavior is governed by self-interest and who is capable of rational decision-making. Economics has also been regarded as a non-experimental science, where researchers – as in astronomy or meteorology – have had to rely exclusively on field…