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Today’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Alain Aspe of France, John Krause of the United States and Anton Salinger of Austria. In fact, the three brothers have already won the Wolf Prize together in 2010, and today is the Nobel Prize reunion .
The interpretation of their research is more difficult to understand in today’s push. Here we will talk about the lighthearted anecdote of the three quantum giants, and destroy their serious scientist’s character (not).
Literary old Salinger
Science Fiction Loyal… Middle Two Fans
Salinger loves The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this novel, humans use supercomputers to calculate the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything. After 7.5 million years, the result is “42”.
Salinger was convinced and named his sailboat “42” .
Google Scholar introduced here, Salinger’s research field, also wrote “42” (you can edit it yourself, so most of it is written by the old man himself).
Comparison of the introduction pages of Krause and Salinger: one honestly wrote a lot, one “42”丨Google Scholar
This point has to be said that the hero sees the same thing. The leisure area of the fruit shell office is also called “42”.
The Leisure Area of Nutshell Office丨YIYI
In addition, as a sci-fi fan of cosmic themes, Salinger owns an asteroid named 48681 Zeilinger after himself , which is a great benefit!
Anton Always Funny Salinger
Salinger seems to be well-known in academia for his hilariousness.
In 2002, at a symposium in Princeton, the author of the proceedings was full of praise for Salinger’s speech, calling it the heart of the meeting, and calling it ” Anton, always funny, Salinger. ” interesting Anton Zeilinger) ”.
Krause was also impressed by one of Salinger’s jokes. In one of Salinger’s presentations, he hypothesized that he would experiment with his own graduate students—yes, let’s say grad students were thrown out a window and projected onto the moon, and discussed whether interference patterns would appear .
How to say, after “Schrödinger’s cat”, there is another “Salinger’s graduate student”.
scientist, jazz musician
Great scientists also have a very emotional side. In his spare time, Salinger is also a jazz fanatic who loves to play the cello .
A colleague of Salinger described him this way:
” He has the keen sense of smell as an artist and the intuition of a painter . He has a remarkable ability to always put his fingers in the right place and pick out the raisins in the cake.”
We don’t know if this colleague is his subordinate, so let’s just believe it.
In 1990, Salinger (second from left) at a conference, it still looks quite literary | Anton Zeilinger
Invite philosophers to science labs
Salinger has a very mash-up project: Ask philosophers to visit his quantum physics lab .
In this regard, Salinger said that many philosophers are naive realists, seeing the facts, “[but philosophers after visiting] will come to the conclusion that the world is more counterintuitive than you think” .
To put it well, it means that science inspires philosophy, and to put it bluntly, isn’t this provoking philosophers from another dimension!
Novelty lover
Do you know a scientific calculator? There are a lot of complicated buttons, and many high school students have one.
That’s it丨Tube Creative
When the scientific calculator first came out, Salinger was very excited. ” We had a group of people gathered around the calculator and played with it for an afternoon. We were so excited !”
Of course, as a science tycoon, Salinger’s hobby of electronic products will not stop at calculators.
In October 2010, Salinger told the media that he had ordered a new iPhone 4, “I know I will only use a few features in it, but I just like these things .”
Then we boldly guess that Mr. Salinger now owns the iPhone 14.
When you see a cylinder, how can you not pretend it’s the captain’s telescope?丨Godany
Outstanding Chinese Students
Salinger took a Chinese doctoral student.
This Chinese is now China’s top physicist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, executive vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and Pan Jianwei , who led the team to develop the “Nine Chapters” quantum computing prototype.
Pan Jianwei (middle) and his mentor Salinger (right)｜ University of Vienna
Atypical school bully Krause
For subjects with Nobel Prizes, fail twice
Today Krause won the Nobel Prize for his work in quantum physics, but when he was in college, he failed this subject twice in a row .
Krause took four courses at Columbia University, and the school required at least a B in all four subjects.
But Krause got only a C in advanced quantum mechanics in one of the 4 courses. How to do? Make up the exam! Then he got another C and had to make up the test again.
But Krause was not discouraged at all. He told reporters, ” Charlie Townes has rebuilt it twice !”
Towns (right), who was launched by Clausela, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964丨wikimedia commons
Wanted to overthrow quantum mechanics
Krause, who says he has always been a realist, believed for a while that “weird” quantum mechanics must be wrong, and the world couldn’t be like this .
Krause once said frankly: “I hope we can overthrow quantum mechanics.” For that, he did a bunch of research, and then…then he got a Nobel Prize for quantum mechanics.
In 1976, Krause conducted his second quantum entanglement experiment at the University of California, Berkeley｜University of California Graphic Arts / Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Don’t study engineering!
John Krause’s father was chair of the Department of Aeronautics at Johns Hopkins University, vice chancellor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and chair professor at Caltech.
Because his father has been an engineer all his life, he feels that there is a chain of contempt among technology practitioners. Engineers are at the bottom of the chain of contempt. He wants his children to be upstream of the chain of contempt, so he asked him to study theoretical physics .
Of course, the obvious reason is not so blatant, his father said to Krause Jr.: ” If you really know everything about the broad basic principles, you can do whatever you want .”
In “The Big Bang Theory”, Howard was always run on by other physics doctors because he was a master of engineering | “The Big Bang Theory”
Developed (proclaimed to be) the earliest video game
Krautzer used to be interested in computers, made (proclaimed to be) the world’s first video game , and won an award at the National Science Fair.
He thought he would go on to study electrical engineering in college, but his father didn’t let him study this – or for that reason, engineering was at the bottom of the chain.
Free baths for the rich
Before he won the Nobel Prize, Krause had been dragged to the cave, giving lectures to the rich. The lecture takes place in a gorgeous estate on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Here, Krause’s favorite is the hot tub on the cliff, where you can take a nude bath for free . “Everyone is naked, so exciting.”
Of course they still talk about serious stuff, like quantum mechanics.
As for his spare time, Krause loves sailing | John Dukat
As for Alain Aspe…
The winner has only three words to say.
First: I also have the asteroid 33163 Alainaspect named after me!
Second: I understand the problem that the scientific community has been fighting for for 70 years!
Figure丨twitter@alain_aspect
Third: I can’t shave my beard!
Aspe at different times, same mustache
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Authors: Little Towel, Owl, Su Qinian, Weng Yang, Shen Zhihan, Li Xiaokui
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