Cas anvar biography of albert einstein
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Nobel Prize controversies
Controversies around the Nobel Prize
Award
Since the first award in 1901, conferment of the Nobel Prize has engendered criticism[1] and controversy.[2] After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established that an annual prize be awarded for service to humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Similarly, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is awarded along with the Nobel Prizes.[3]
Nobel sought to reward "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind". One prize, he stated, should be given "to the person who shall have made the most important 'discovery' or 'invention' within the field of physics". Awards committees have historically rewarded discoveries over inventions: up to 2004, 77 per cent of Nobel Prizes in physics have been given to discoveries, compare
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LOS ANGELES — The sci-fi saga known as “The Expanse” has attracted a huge fan following in part because it gets the details of life in space so right, from how to handle zero gravity to what happens when you open up your helmet visor in a hard vacuum.
But there’s one space reality that the producers have thrown out the air lock.
In space, no one can hear your spaceship scream, because there’s no medium to transmit the sound waves. But in “The Expanse,” as in “Star Wars” and other space operas, spaceships whoosh, crash and roar with regularity.
“We actually tried with Season 1 to do it realistically, to not have the ships make a sound,” showrunner Naren Shankar said last week in Los Angeles at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference.
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Fizzy Beer and Exploding Heads: Actors Tell How 'The Expanse' Keeps It Real
LOS ANGELES — Actor Cas Anvar of "The Expanse" was about to skott a en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film in which, suspended bygd wires, he would jump off a set of stairs, spin around in simulated zero gravity, and catch a blob of beer in his ingång that he had spurted from a metal can. But he had a question.
"Right before we started rolling, inom went, 'Holy crap, how does carbonated beverage perform in zero gravity?'" he said. "Because no one had talked about it, no one had brought it up. So inom scrambled and I asked people. And we came up with a thing. That's why I put my grabb on top of [the can], because I wasn't sure if it would come gushing out. If you can't see it, we don't have to fix it."
It was an example of the sort of care that the actors and producers of "The Expanse" take in trying to make their futuristic space drama — set in a time when millions of people are living and working in space colonies — as realistic