U S and French trio win physics Nobel prize
Two Americans and a French colleague win the Nobel in physics for cooling atoms with laser light. Steven Chu of Stanford William D Phillips of NIST Gaithersburg and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of France cited for trapping and chilling atoms to near absolute zero. The work enables precise atomic clocks and quantum studies. The prize includes one million dollars and honors discoveries at near zero temperatures.
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Associated Press
Tockholm
Sweden
Steven Chu
Stanford University
William D. Phillips
U.S
Chu
San Francisco
KCBS
Albert Einstein
Colorado
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Phillips
Cohen-Tannoudji
Cohen-Tananoudji
David M. Lee
Robert C. Richardson
Douglas C. Osheroff
Yeager marks 50th anniversary with final Air Force flight
At Edwards Air Force Base Chuck Yeager flew an F-15 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his first sonic break. The 74 year old pilot reported speeds around 1.35 times speed of sound as a stamp and a street name honor him, with plans to fly in industry but not for the Air Force again.
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Dennis Anderson
Associated Press
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Chuck Yeager
Yeager
Mojave Desert
Edwards
Los Angeles
Air Force Flight Test Center
Air Force
U.S. Postal Service
Escaped taxifolia seaweed threatens Mediterranean coast
The invasive Caulerpa taxifolia, escaped from Monaco in the 1980s, has spread across 7,600 acres of the French, Italian, Croatian coasts and Mallorca. It chokes fisheries and diving sites, prompting calls for a global strategy and debates over control methods including leaf-eating sea slugs. Authorities warn seafarers and have issued multilingual advisories.
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Monaco
Mediterranean
Alexandre Meinesz
Nice-Antipolis University
Tropics
Stuttgart
Germany
Europe
Japan
South Africa
Dennis Thoney
New York Aquarium
United States
Monaco Aquarium
France
Italy
Croatia
Spain
Mallorca
Riviera
Swanky
Meinesz
Aquarium
Lionel Jospin
Florida
Environment Ministry
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Bertram N. Brockhouse
Canada
Russell A. Hulse
Joseph H. Taylor Jr
Georges Charpak
Jerome J. Friedman
Henry W. Kendall
Richard E. Taylor
Norman Ramsey
Hans Dehmelt
Wolfgang Paul
Leon Lederman
Melvin Schwartz
Jack Steinberger
Alexander Muller
Switzerland
George Bednorz
Harold W. Kroto
Britain
Richard E. Smalley
Robert F. Curl
Royal Academy
Academy
Robert C. Merton
Myron S. Scholes
Jody Williams
Dario Fo
Stanley Prusiner
Alfred Nobel
Oslo
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Stockholm
Christopher Burns
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