Nobel Prize in Physics

Off-topic
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We strive to be the kind of University that our football team can be proud of:
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/10/09/nobel-prize-winner-david-wineland-praised-mentor-cu-boulder-graduate

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We’re currently using Wineland’s techniques to cool and trap helium-6 isotopes to accurately measure the half life. Tell him thanks from me.

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Hi Harper;

I will if I see him. I used to work down the hall from his group (Berquist, Itano, Bollinger et al.), but we are now in a new building on the same campus.

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So are they going to name a goalpost after him? Or maybe the visitor’s 30 yard line?

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Gimme a break, he’s not that important. It’s only the Nobel Prize for Christ’s sake. It’s not football.

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Ah, this thread has finally sunk down to a level that I can comprehend (not that I give a fig about football or any other sport).