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Questions
A key stage in the develop of the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics, the Nernst Heat Theorem that led to Walther Nernst receiving the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry sometimes adds which German student of his to its title? Never becoming a Nobel Laureate, this person devised the gaseous diffusion method, an important stage in the creation of the atomic bomb.
FRANÇOIS SIMON
Awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving that CP violation was a thing, which American particle physicist’s first and second name provide the forename and surname of another famous Nobel Laureate?
JAMES (WATSON) CRONIN
Spoiling the dream that all natural laws had symmetry when he helped to prove CP violation, who shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Cronin? This American nuclear physicist had previously worked on the Manhattan Project.
VAL FITCH
Performing his experiments at the Super-Kamiokande observatory in Gifu Prefecture, which Japanese scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving that neutrino oscillation exists, implying as a result that neutrinos must have mass?
TAKAAKI KAJITA
Sharing the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics with Takaaki Kajita was which Canadian astrophysicist, whose experiments at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory independently proved the existence of neutrino oscillation?
ARTHUR B. MCDONALD
Making an appearance in an episode of “The Big Bang Theory”, Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold won her Chemistry prize in 2018 for using directed evolution to engineer what?
ENZYMES
Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, George Smith is known for what technique that sees a protein expressed on the outside of a certain type of virus?
PHAGE DISPLAY
Sharing the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Americans Frances Arnold and George Smith, which British molecular biologist credited for his work on phage display has played a part in humanising antibodies for therapeutic use, these previously having been derived from mice?
GREGORY WINTER
1972 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Kenneth Arrow is particularly known for what theorem that deals with voting preferences and suggests that as soon as people are presented with at least three distinct choices, the system can’t rank community-wide preferences without violating certain other criteria?
(ARROW’S) IMPOSSIBILITY THEOREM
Having the compensated demand function named for him, which British contributor to general equilibrium theory who wrote the 1969 work “Value and Capital” shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics with Kenneth Arrow?
JOHN HICKS
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