Annual Nobel speculation thread
It’s that time of year again. The physics Nobel will be announced next Tuesday, and the chemistry prize on Wednesday. Who will it be this time? Please speculate in the comments. As is my annual futile tradition, I will put forward that the physics prize could be Aharonov and Berry for geometric phases in physics (even though Pancharatnam is intellectually in there and died in 1969). This is a long shot, as always. Last year was neural networks. Astro is probably “due”, but who knows. On the chem side, last year was computational protein design and AlphaFold.
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Twisted graphene?
Not sure who, but my guess is someone in the general area of topological quantum matter/information.
I’m still riding the high from predicting Hopfield on this blog last year. Maybe I’ll get lucky again!
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero would be a recipient for twisted graphene, right?
Weyl fermions, M. Zahid Hasan could also get it.
On second thought, I wonder if I should go with Gautam and change my guess to twisted graphene as well. I hadn’t thought of it but maybe it is a more likely condensed matter / quantum choice, since topology has already been recognized in 2016…
I also vote for Aharanov and Berry. In the 20th century, "Berry phase" appeared in 174 PRL papers. In the 21st century, it appeared in 1310!
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