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  Interesting facts about John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton, who won Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

  Technology | October 09, 2024 12:00 IST

  John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enabled machine learning with artificial neural networks. Here are some interesting facts about them.

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  Nobel-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who discovered 'God Particle', dies at 94

  World | April 10, 2024 6:13 IST

  Higgs proposed the existence of the Higgs-Boson particle, also known as the 'God Particle' in 1964. The existence of the particle was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider, earning him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013.

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  Bengaluru teen wins Rs 3.31 crore prize money in 'Breakthrough Junior Challenge' contest

  Trending | February 07, 2024 11:25 IST

  The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is also known as 'Oscars of Science'. The competition is about exploring the use of science, physics and math in daily life.

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  Physics, chemistry, maths in class 12 no longer mandatory for admission in architecture, says AICTE

  Education | March 30, 2022 0:09 IST

  The technical education regulator had last year announced that students who have not studied physics, chemistry or maths (PCM) in Class 12 will be able to seek admission to engineering and technology programmes, causing a huge uproar.

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  Jeff Bezos to fly 'beyond Karman line' on Tuesday

  Science | July 19, 2021 23:20 IST

  Jeff Bezos is all set to fly to the edge of space, beyond the Karman line, on Tuesday, along with three others, aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.

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  Nobel Prize 2020 for Physics: 3 scientists win award for discoveries about black hole

  World | October 06, 2020 16:26 IST

  Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Briton Roger Penrose will receive half of this year’s prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.”

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  Learning physics may activate new brain areas

  Lifestyle | May 25, 2018 23:42 IST

  Brain areas that are traditionally not associated with learning science can become active when people are confronted with solving physics problems.

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  NEET 2018: Chemistry and Biology moderate, Physics tough, students say

  Higher Studies | May 06, 2018 17:25 IST

  While students found Physics tough and lengthy, they said that the Chemistry and Biology sections were comparitively simple and direct.   

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  Barry Barish, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss of US win Nobel Physics Prize for gravitational waves

  Science | October 03, 2017 16:28 IST

  Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that the winners are Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.

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  Over 100,000 people challenge Albert Einstein in unique worldwide quantum physics experiment

  World | December 11, 2016 18:24 IST

  With the aim of testing the laws of physics, more than 100,000 people from laboratories around the world for the first time have conducted a unique worldwide experiment, refuting Albert Einstein’s understanding of the microscopic

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  Three win 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing molecular machines

  World | October 05, 2016 16:36 IST

  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard "Ben" Feringa as winners of the prestigious 2016 Nobel prize in the field of chemistry. The award

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  British trio David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz win 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

  World | October 04, 2016 16:45 IST

  David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, all three physicists from the United Kingdom, have won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics. The British-born scientists have been selected for work that "revealed the secrets

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  Indian-American part of US chemistry Olympiad team

  World | July 19, 2015 16:36 IST

  New York: Indian-origin Soorajnath Boominathan is part of a four-member team that will represent the US in the annual 47th International Chemistry Olympiad to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from July 20 to 29.A resident of

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  A look at the winners of Nobel Prize in physics

  World | October 08, 2013 20:40 IST

  Britain:  Peter Higgs and Francois Englert have been awarded the Nobel prize in Physics today for their theory of how particles acquire mass- existence of the subatomic Higgs boson. WHO WON?Peter Higgs, 84, emeritus professor

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  10 year old prodigy to enter Harvard this fall

  World | June 20, 2013 11:04 IST

  Mexico City, June 20: He's only 10-years old but thanks to an IQ similar to Albert Einstein's, Luis Roberto Ramirez will begin the next school year studying applied quantum physics at Harvard University."My dream is