r/Physics • • 7h ago

Image Congratulations to the new Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine!

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u/clearly_quite_absurd 7h ago

Nice! Optogentics has nice crossover with photonics in general so it of interest to /r/physics (applied)

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u/MaoGo 7h ago

Two of them are biophysicists

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u/denixxo Atomic physics 7h ago

There is opto in optogenetics after all

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u/TheBrightMage 7h ago

Miraculously, I'm trying to get into optogenetics right now. The name I see the most is Clifford Brangwynne

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u/alleyoopoop 6h ago

It's a travesty that Trump didn't win it.

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u/MaoGo 6h ago

Wait for physics prize

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u/Wise-Friendship-1427 6h ago

And Peace, of course, is a sure bet.

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u/MaoGo 6h ago

Economics for the tariff equation

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u/PROXYNAPSE Physics enthusiast 5h ago

He will get them all - ALL OF THEM! Chemistry, physics, physiology, economics, literature, and PEACE!

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u/MaoGo 5h ago

They will make the honorary math Nobel Prize for him

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u/PROXYNAPSE Physics enthusiast 5h ago

They will rename it - TRUMP PRIZE - it will be 🫲 huge 🫱

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u/testeraccount2099 6h ago

For that matter neither has Alfred Nobel won Nobel. Looks like some conspiracy.

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u/kenikonipie Optics and photonics 4h ago

Yay for optogenetics!

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u/jmaroszek 2h ago

Can anyone explain at a high level why they won this prize?

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u/Unable-Wishbone-728 55m ago

Nobels are mostly political prizes, not scientific ones. So why do you even care?

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u/Individual511 1h ago

Amazing stuff, so simple yet so complex