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Losing The Nobel Prize | Dr Brian Keating

Brian Keating is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Centre for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at University of California. How would it feel to almost receive the Nobel Prize and have it torn from your grasp? Today we're going to find out, albeit at Professor Keating's expense. Expect to learn what it takes to build a telescope that can detect the farthest regions of space in the Antarctic, what the Nobel Prize originally set out to achieve and how the politics of the physics community can often get in the way of progress. Extra Stuff: Brian's Website - https://briankeating.com/ Losing The Nobel Prize - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Losing-Nobel-Prize-Cosmology-Ambition/dp/1324000910/ - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XrOqvxlqQI6bmdYHuIVnr?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - I want to hear from you!! Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Chris WilliamsonhostBrian Keatingguest
Feb 11, 20191h 6mWatch on YouTube ↗

CHAPTERS

  1. 0:00 – 2:08

    Introduction

  2. 2:08 – 6:02

    Dr Brian Keating

  3. 6:02 – 9:45

    Is the world of physics bipartisan

  4. 9:45 – 13:57

    The skys the limit

  5. 13:57 – 14:24

    Lowhanging fruit

  6. 14:24 – 15:37

    Ignorance and knowledge

  7. 15:37 – 16:48

    The most exciting time in history

  8. 16:48 – 19:42

    The biggest discovery of all time

  9. 19:42 – 20:41

    Einsteins greatest accomplishment

  10. 20:41 – 26:35

    Gravitational waves

  11. 26:35 – 27:17

    Eureka

  12. 27:17 – 32:39

    Jocelyn Bell

  13. 32:39 – 35:26

    Humans are human

  14. 35:26 – 39:48

    Alfred Nobel

  15. 39:48 – 49:24

    Losing the Nobel

  16. 49:24 – 50:02

    A mixture of emotions

  17. 50:02 – 50:24

    I was left at the altar

  18. 50:24 – 55:19

    No longer holds the idolatrous trance fiction

  19. 55:19 – 58:16

    The humiliation came higher than the disappointment

  20. 58:16 – 1:06:08

    Im a hypocrite

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