{"id":265,"date":"2016-10-05T09:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/?p=265"},"modified":"2016-10-05T10:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:55:06","slug":"nobel-prizes-in-physics-and-chemistry-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/nobel-prizes-in-physics-and-chemistry-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Any prize structure can be usefully viewed through a lens that includes politics, power, privilege, identity, diversity, equity, and access. Nevertheless, the Nobel Prizes in science do reflect important advances in the field.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/2016\/\">Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016<\/a><\/strong> was awarded for <em>&#8220;<\/em><i>for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter&#8221;<\/i>. A popular science level explanation is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/2016\/popular.html\">here<\/a><\/strong> and a more advanced explanation is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/2016\/advanced.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2016\/\">Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/a><\/strong> for 2016 was awarded for <i>&#8220;for the design and synthesis of molecular machines&#8221;<\/i>. A popular science level explanation is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2016\/popular.html\">here<\/a><\/strong> and a more advanced explanation is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2016\/advanced.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Both topics this year involve topology (that&#8217;s not as clear from the brief title for the chemistry prize), so there&#8217;s a wonderful application of a pure math topic to the physical world (sorry, pure mathematicians).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(edited to add) One of your classmates sent this link <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/22\/science\/deborah-jin-obituary.html?_r=0%5C\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/22\/science\/deborah-jin-obituary.html?_r=0%5C<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It seems appropriate to link to these resources as well (let me know if this deserves its own post and if you can give me more resources like this to post):\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aps.org\/programs\/women\/scholarships\/month\/index.cfm\">Woman Physicist of the Month<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aps.org\/programs\/honors\/awards\/bouchet.cfm\">Bouchet Award<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arbitrarilyclose.com\/2016\/08\/21\/the-mathematicians-project-mathematicians-are-not-just-white-dudes\/\">The Mathematicians Project<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any prize structure can be usefully viewed through a lens that includes politics, power, privilege, identity, diversity, equity, and access. Nevertheless, the Nobel Prizes in science do reflect important advances in the field. The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/nobel-prizes-in-physics-and-chemistry-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}