The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, October 07, 2003  

NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS
Three Jars and Some Squiggles

This year’s Nobel Prize for physics today was awarded to Alexei A. Abrikosov of the Argonne National Laboratory, Vitaly L. Ginzburg of the P.M. Lebedev Physical Institute, and Anthony J. Leggett of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

Here’s the essence of the good doctors’ term paper:

I knew I should have majored in physics. Or chemistry. Or math. Something with a big prize. A Nobel Prize. Yeah, that’s it, something with a Nobel Prize. But not economics, because that’s like a joke. Not economics writ large, but the Nobels in the category. They’re a complete farce.

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