I Nobel 2017

Nobel 2017
Il premio Nobel per la fisica 2017 assegnato ai geniali inventori del metodo e dello strumento (Interferometro) per la rilevazione degli effetti delle onde gravitazionali.
Un contributo essenziale per provare le relazioni tra tempo e forza gravitazionale teorizzate da Einstein più di cento anni fa.
The Nobel Prize for Physics 2017 assigned to the genious inventors of the method and toolwheel (Interferometer) for detecting the effects of gravitational waves. An essential contribution to the relationship between time and gravitational force theorized by Einstein more than a hundred years ago.
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Gianfranco Uber


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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne




Rainer Weiss

Born: 1932, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

Prize motivation: "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

Prize share: 1/2




Barry C. Barish
Born: 1936, Omaha, NE, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA

Prize motivation: "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

Prize share: 1/4




Kip S. Thorne

Born: 1940, Logan, UT, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA

Prize motivation: "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

Prize share: 1/4

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

Learn more about the 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics via the popular info ”Cosmic chirps” (pdf): https://t.co/tSs58eZ5Xjpic.twitter.com/CLHkegfYgg

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) 3 ottobre 2017

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017


Jacques Dubochet

Born: 1942, Aigle, Switzerland

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Prize motivation: "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

Prize share: 1/3



Joachim Frank

Born: 1940, Siegen, Germany

Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Prize motivation: "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

Prize share: 1/3



Richard Henderson
Born: 1945, Edinburgh, Scotland

Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".

The final technical hurdle was overcome in 2013, when a new type of electron detector came into use. pic.twitter.com/Ue9c0R6v7y

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) 4 ottobre 2017

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017


Jeffrey C. Hall
Born: 1945, New York, NY, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Maine, Maine, ME, USA

Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"

Prize share: 1/3


Michael Rosbash
Born: 1944, Kansas City, MO, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"

Prize share: 1/3



Michael W. Young
Born: 1944, Kansas City, MO, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 was awarded jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017



Kazuo Ishiguro
Ill: N. Elmehed. © Nobel Media 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro
Born: 1954, Nagasaki, Japan

Prize motivation: "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"

Prize share: 1/1

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".


Lo scorso anno le polemiche furono numerose per l'assegnazione del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura a Bob Dylan. L'atteggiamento del musicista, che sembrò inizialmente indifferente a un simile riconoscimento internazionale, non migliorò l'atteggiamento dell'opinione pubblica.
Quest'anno invece non dovrebbero esserci polemiche: ad aver ricevuto il Premio è infatti il grande scrittore Kazuo Ishiguro, di origini giapponesi, ma vissuto in Gran Bretagna dall'età di sei anni, molto amato per romanzi come "Un pallido orizzonte di colline", "Quel che resta del giorno", "Non lasciarmi", "Quando eravamo orfani", "Il gigante sepolto".
Dalle sue opere sono stati tratti film di grande successo, come "Quel che resta del giorno" di James Ivory, con Anthony Hopkins ed Emma Thompson, e "Non lasciarmi", con Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan e Keira Knightley.


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