It's that time of year yet 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, especially since last year's prize for “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit” was condensed matter related. Perhaps optical metamaterials, with
Yablonovitch,
Smith, and
Pendry? (Though that's another one where picking just three names is challenging.) Astro-related is likely due, so perhaps something CMBR related?
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