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posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 07 2015, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the justified-recognition dept.

Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the discovery of neutrino oscillations. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the two researchers had made key contributions to experiments showing that neutrinos change identities. Neutrinos are particles that whiz through the universe at nearly the speed of light. They are created in nuclear reactions, such as in the sun and the stars, or in nuclear power plants.

"The discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the universe," the academy said. Kajita, 56, is director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and professor at the University of Tokyo. McDonald, 72, is a professor emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-kajita-mcdonald-nobel-physics-prize.html

In medicine, the prize is split in half with one half going to William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their work on avermectin, a drug that kills roundworms that cause blindness and deformities, and the other half going to Youyou Tu for work on artemisinin, a drug that kills the parasite that causes malaria.

[Also Covered By]: The Guardian‎, New York Times, ABC News, CNN


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2015, @07:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2015, @07:02AM (#246364)

    Interesting starting point:

    The malaria community therefore appears overreliant on a single metric of drug effectiveness, the parasite clearance rate, that has significant and serious shortcomings.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4576129/ [nih.gov]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2015, @04:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2015, @04:48PM (#246510)

    Terrible headline. First off I don't know who those people are or what they achieved. Second, the asian names tossed in with western names that sound like major food corporations is very confusing. The better way would be to simply make the headline read: "Winners of Physics and Medical Prizes announced." The body text speaks for itself.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2015, @07:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2015, @07:26PM (#246559)

      Second, the asian names tossed in with western names that sound like major food corporations is very confusing.

      Come on dude, it's not like you'll ever have to sing happy birthday to the woman who won for her work on artemisinin.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2015, @01:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2015, @01:49AM (#246700)

    The Japanese media ran a few reaction stories.
    His mentor, fellow Nobel Prize winner Koshiba, mentioned he wasn't all that great when he was mentoring him.
    His wife said he was a unremarkable old man.
    And that was the news, I guess he was later invited to have his nose pinched by a crab or something like that.

    • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday October 08 2015, @12:45PM

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 08 2015, @12:45PM (#246838) Journal

      Ouch.

      But everywhere else he'll be introduced as a Nobel Prize winner :)

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