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Score!

Posted by Jay Manifold on October 7th, 2008 (All posts by Jay Manifold)

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Yahoo! News/AP: “American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.”

We are great and we are grand … we make bombs beneath our stands!

UPDATE: UofC news office release.

 

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3 Responses to “Score!”

  1. Jim Miller Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    I can’t imagine how he did that, considering how insular the United States is. Maybe we are insular only in literature.

  2. Jay Manifold Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am

    Fortunately, the Nobel committees for the prizes other than Literature and Peace are not in thrall to political correctness.

  3. anomdebus Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    Hah, I just broke out “a møøse once bit my sister” recently..

    Jim, I have it on good authority that he did tests solely on American matter, so don’t lose hope.

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