Nobel Prizes

El bosón de Higgs lleva su nombre. Es un elemento clave del modelo estándar, que encapsulaba todo el conocimiento humano hasta el momento sobre las partículas elementales.

The Higgs boson was named for him. It was a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far about elementary particles.

He shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that paved the way for high-speed internet communication, mobile phones and bar-code readers.

He insisted on the value of working with those we disagree with.

In the race to identify the hormones used to control bodily functions, he battled with his former partner. They later shared the glory.

The social math of kidney transplants is tricky. Game theory helped.

The only prerequisite for reading the Nobel laureate, a master of short stories, is: having lived. Here’s where to start.

His 1964 discovery with Robert W. Wilson settled a debate over the origin and evolution of the universe.

His elegant work established that the main determinant of economic growth was technology, not growing capital and labor.

At the ceremony in Oslo, the Iranian activist’s twins also read a speech from their mother calling for a “globalization of peace and human rights.”