Nobel Prizes

We're excited at the University of Chicago because one of our professors just won a Nobel Prize! Yoichiro Nambu received the Nobel Prize for his theoretical work in particle physics. To be perfectly honest, his contributions to the field are too far above my head for me to even understand, let alone explain. But suffice it to say, he one one of the key contributors to the Standard Model of particle physics and quantum chromodynamics, the theory that deals with interactions between quarks, the exceptionally tiny subatomic particles that make up protons and neutrons. He was also one of the early contributors to string theory.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the people who discovered green fluorescent protein and developed it into a powerful tool for molecular biology (see my posts below). I for one am definitely grateful to them!