{Don't miss our nomination period to nominate your most attractive physicists}
This is probably either an excerpt, or the text of a talk given by Frank Wilczek at last year's Solvay Conference.
Abstract: 2011 marked the hundredth anniversary both of the famous Solvay conferences,
and of the Geiger-Marsden experiment that launched the modern understanding of
subatomic structure. I was asked to survey the status and prospects of particle
physics for the anniversary Solvay conference, with appropriate perspective.
This is my attempt.
It's a surprisingly short paper, considering the title, which means it is short on details. Still, it might be an informative read for some people.
Zz.
2 comments:
Completely unrelated to this, but to your attractive physicist competition. I've found it silly until now (and for the most part still do!) but I noticed a study on physorg that makes me wonder if maybe a great-looking, brilliant female physicist being given credit for both would actually help draw more reluctant girls into physics. It's a valid point whether we should be happy children choose their careers based on gender roles (and not one I'm informed enough to participate in!), but these are the circumstances.
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-fair-physicist-feminine-math-science.html
Just for the record, *I* consider the contest rather silly myself! It is because of its silliness that I run it.
Zz.
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