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Very proud to have accepted the 2023 Ehrenfest Award last week in Vienna, on behalf of all my co-authors, for our 2020 paper A Strong no-go theorem on the Wigner’s friend paradox.
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Carlsberg Brewery offered Niels Bohr a lifetime supply of unlimited beer. Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. In honor of his achievements, Carlsberg Brewery offered him a gift: a house located next to the... See more
Albert Einstein (pronunciación en alemán: /ˈalbɐt ˈaɪnʃtaɪn/i; Ulm, Imperio alemán, 14 de marzo de 1879-Princeton, Estados Unidos, 18 de abril de 1955) fue un físico alemán de origen judío, nacionalizado después suizo, austriaco y estadounidense. Se le considera el científico más importante, conocido y popular del siglo XX.[2][3]
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Herein lies the triumph of commodification: it separates us from the things we evaluate. ”If a thing is to have a market value,” writes Hyde, “it must be detachable or alienable so that it can be put on the scale and compared.” Karl Marx similarly argued in Das Kapital, “I cannot express the value of linen in terms of linen”. This is why money has... See more
Rebecca • Quantifying the Gift
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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Many know Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to be one of the most influential authors in German literature but like any other polymath his gifts were multifaceted. Goethe was also a scientist.⠀
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Instead of taking a mechanical approach to the liquid gold that pours in through our windows at sunrise, Goethe saw light in a... See more
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It reminds me of a story about the great physicist (and one of my heroes) Richard Feynman being asked at a party to explain, briefly and simply, why he was awarded his Nobel Prize. He responded that if he could explain his work briefly and simply, it probably would not have merited a Nobel Prize.