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Ep. 583: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Nobel Prizes for Everyone

Reynard genzel made a comment last week that one of the reasons they got the nobel prize this year was because the committee wanted to make sure there was more diversity in the award ease. Andrea gatz had been working on this work too, and he pointed out some times when he was the one who got a prize and she was not, and that's just not cool. So, a, i think he just had a poor moment. Don't do that, dude. Ah, but these are two people that in general are very nice, kind, gracious people, and it's excellent to see them, ah, awarded for their excellent work.

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