Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced today in Stockholm – Moskovsky Komsomolets

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The names of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 will be announced on Tuesday, but so far no one can even call some favorites in this area. Holders of the prestigious award can be, in particular, the inventors or creators nanolaser computer memory of the future.

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As the press service of the Nobel Foundation, the best physicists of the outgoing year will present on Tuesday, the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

According to the forecast Reuters, predicting the potential winner of the award on the basis of scientific citations in the scientific literature, the award can provide work in the USA Peydonu Yang for his contribution to the creation, in particular, the first nanofiber nanolaser. Among other possible winner of the award called Yoshinori Tokura (Japan), Ramesh Ramamurthy (USA) and James Scott (UK), which may be awarded the prize for his research in the field of memory and increase the efficiency of storage and multiferroic materials, RIA Novosti reported.

It should be noted that under the rules of the fund, with the names of candidates submitted for the award will be made available only after 50 years. Therefore, according to the tradition, the names of possible candidates for the award – only assumptions journalists.

In 2013, the Nobel Prize winner in physics became a British researcher Peter Higgs and Belgian François Angler “for theoretical discovery mechanism that contributes to understanding the origin masses of elementary particles, “and was recently confirmed by the accelerator at CERN.

We recall that on Monday were declared winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2014 – they have become a neuroscientist John O’Kif, as well as spouses Norwegians May-Britt and Edvard Moser. It is reported that the prize was awarded to scientists for their discovery of cells that make up the orientation system of the brain.

Although the three awardees, Nobel prize will be shared not for three and half. One half will receive John O’Keefe, and the second will receive May-Britt and Edvard Moser – the fifth couple in history to win a Nobel prize.

According to the old tradition, the ceremony of awarding the winners of the said Tuesday will be held in Stockholm on December 10 on the day of death of the founder of the Nobel Prizes – Swedish entrepreneur and inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).