Andre Geim
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Geim:
Featured: Stuff Matters (amazon link - Look Inside - p 159 "Unbreakable")
Articles about Geim: Slate | The Independent UK | The Economist
Profile in the New Yorker: Graphene may be the most remarkable substance ever discovered. But what’s it for?
Article: Electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films
*Interesting Facts* Also won the IgNobel Prize for levitating a frog and coauthored a paper with his hamster, H.A.M.S. ter Tisha.
Konstantin Novoselov
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Novoselov:
Article: The Rise of Graphene
Chapter: "Axial Deformation of Monolayer Graphene Under Tension and Compression" in GraphITA 2011 (ebook)
Saul Perlmutter
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Perlmutter:
Article in Discover: The Brilliant “Blunder” That Led to a Nobel Prize
Book: The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
Book: God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe (p 213)
Article: Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 high-redshift supernovae
Brian P. Schmidt
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Schmidt:
Podcast: Veritasium - Nobel Prize Winner Brian Schmidt
What it's like to carry a Nobel Prize through the airport
TEDxSydney: The Universe is Big
Article: Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant
Adam G. Riess
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Riess:
Chapter: "The Struggle to Measure Cosmic Expansion" in NYT Book of Physics (p 507)
Article: Type Ia supernova discoveries at z> 1 from the hubble space telescope
Serge Haroche
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Haroche:
Biography & lectures @ Collège de France
Chapter: "Monitoring the Decoherence of Mesoscopic Quantum Superpositions in a Cavity" inside Quantum Decoherence
Book: Exploring the Quantum - Atoms, Cavities, and Photons
Article: Step-by-Step Engineered Multiparticle Entanglement
David J. Wineland
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Wineland:
Article: Generation of Nonclassical Motional States of a Trapped Atom
François Englert
About Englert:
Video: The Formula of the Universe
Book: Most Wanted Particle - The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs
Book: The Particle at the End of the Universe (p 183)
Book: The Large Hadron Collider (p 156)
Peter Higgs
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Higgs:
Videos on Youtube (about 100)
Book: Most Wanted Particle - The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs
Book: Higgs - The Invention + Discovery of the 'God' Particle
Book: Higgs Discovery - The Power of Empty Space
Book: The Large Hadron Collider - The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson (p 156)
Book: The Quantum Frontier - The Large Hadron Collider
Article: Spontaneous symmetry breakdown without massless bosons
Isamu Akasaki
About Akasaki:
Podcast: Scientific American's Science Talk: Blue Light Special 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Hiroshi Amano
About Amano:
Article: Oxidative desulfurization of fuel oil
Shuji Nakamura
About Riess:
Article: Candela‐class high‐brightness InGaN/AlGaN double‐heterostructure blue‐light‐emitting diodes
Takaaki Kajita
About Kajita:
Book: Experimental Studies of Neutrino Oscillations
Article: Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A
Podcast: Issue Today with Dr. Takaaki Kajita
Podcast: A Beautiful World: Neutrinos Have Mass!
Arthur B. McDonald
About McDonald:
NYT Article: Sun's Missing Neutrino's in Plain Sight
Scientific American Article: Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem
David J. Thouless
About Thouless:
Book: Topological Quantum Numbers in Nonrelativistic Physics (Coming Soon)
Journal of Physics C Article: Ordering, metastability, and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems
Podcast: BBC Radio 4 Profile
F. Duncan M. Haldane
About McDonald:
Physical Review Letters Article: Model for a quantum Hall effect without Landau levels
Physical Review B Article: Minimal entangled states and modular matrix for fractional quantum Hall effect in topological flat band
J. Michael Kosterlitz
About McDonald:
Journal of Physics C Article: Ordering, metastability, and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems
Rainer Weiss
Nobel Official Interview Video
Article: LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves
Share of prize: 1/2
Barry C. Barish
Nobel Official Interview Video
Article: LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves
Share of prize: 1/4
Kip S. Thorne
Nobel Official Interview Video
Share of prize: 1/4
