This year’s Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Thursday to the three Americans who helped develop fiber-optic cable and invented the “eye” in digital cameras, technology that gave rise to film-free photography and high-speed Internet service. Half the $1.4 million prize went to Charles Kao and the other went to Willard Boyle and George Smith.
But a very close contender for the prize this year was University of South Carolina Professor Emeritus Dr. Yakir Aharonov(a-ha-RONE-ovf). That’s according to the Thomas Reuters(Royters) Citation Laureates, a professional organization that indexes research papers. That organization has been right nine out of ten times in guessing Noble Prize winners and predicted that Aharonov would win.
Aharonov was a physicist with USC and Tel Aviv University for 40 years until he left a couple of years ago for a position with Chapman University in California.
Aharonov received the prestigious Wolf Prize in 1998 for his co-discovery of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect, one of the cornerstones of modern physics. [click to continue…]
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