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Holidays, 2022

Tikalon is on a Christmas/New Year's Day holiday. The next article will appear on Monday, January 2, 2023.

We gift you with five Nobel Physics Laureates under the Christmas tree. There are presently a total of 221 individuals who have been awarded this prize;[1] so, if your favorite is not under the tree, the odds were against you from the start.

Five Nobel Physics Laureates under the Christmas tree.

Five Nobel Physics Laureates under the Christmas tree. From Left to right, Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934), Niels Bohr (1885-1962), Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Albert Einstein (1879-1955), and Paul Dirac (1902-1984). (Marie Curie image, c. 1920s, by Henri Manuel (1874–1947); Niels Bohr image, c. 1922, from the Niels Bohr's Nobel Prize biography; Enrico Fermi image, c. 1943-1949, from the US National Archives and Records Administration; Albert Einstein image, 1921, by Ferdinand Schmutzer (1870-1928); Paul Dirac image, 1933, from the Paul Dirac Nobel Prize biography; and, background image (modified) by Kgbo; all from Wikimedia Commons. Boxes created using Inkscape)


Reference:

  1. All Nobel Prizes in Physics, The Nobel Foundation.

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