Nobel Prize

John Douglas Cockcroft was born at Todmorden, England, on May 27th, 1897. His family had for several generations been cotton manufacturers. He was educated at Todmorden Secondary School and studied mathematics at Manchester University under Horace Lamb in 1914-1915. After serving in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery he returned to Manchester…

“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.”Samuel Goldwyn Several years ago I was on a trekking trip in the Jordanian desert with a large group of Brits. We were camping and, as usual, there was not much to do in the evenings, so we filled the hours by sitting around…

My four grandparents all immigrated as young adults to the United States from Eastern European Jewish towns and villages early in the twentieth century. This was a generation of poor but optimistic intellectuals, who expected that the newly rationalist world would use education and creativity to leave behind boundaries, borders, and religion to build a…

Adam G. Riess did not submit an autobiography.

Brian P. Schmidt did not submit an autobiography.

The Nobel Laureates, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California,Berkeley, CA, USA, Australian National University,Weston Creek, Australia, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute,Baltimore, MD, USA Popular science articlesPerlmutter, S. (2003) Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe, Physics Today, vol. 56,no. 4.Krauss, L.M., Turner, M.S. (2004) A Cosmic Conundrum, Scientific American,www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-cosmic-conundrumRiess, A.G., Turner,…

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