Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B McDonald won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics this morning for their work on neutrinos. Neutrinos are subatomic particles that bombard the Earth constantly, but they pass right through us. And everything else. They’re like ghosts, but incredibly tiny and a lot more common. Even the Ghost Hunters could probably…
It’s like the Academy Awards, But Better: The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been announced. This year the winners are…drum roll, please…Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for their invention of blue LEDs – light emitting diodes. #456785414 / gettyimages.com Given that last year’s prize was won by the theoretical work done by Peter Higgs and François Englert on the Higgs…