Nobelesse Oblige
A podcast rating and reviewing all of the Nobel laureates from 1901 until we run out of people.
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We return to merry old England this episode as we cover our next physics laureate. Listen as we describe what is often considered the most productive period of the Cavendish Laboratory, and what else JJ was up to besides.
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Content Warning: This episode's subject was literally a Nazi
This episode, we see what happens when bigotry gets in the way of science. Then, because Quinn is petty, we have a nice palette cleanser.
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Just in time for this year's Nobel Prize ceremony, we have our episode explaining this year's Nobel Prizes. Enjoy listening to us try to explain mRNA vaccines, rage against misogyny, and... wait, is that the Romans?
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After a much longer than anticipated delay, here's our episode on John William Strutt, aka Lord Rayleigh. He did a lot, but is it enough to get him Nobelesse Oblige?
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We're taking the plunge into the Literature prizes! Join us as Maggie gives us a crash course on literary history and theory, and Quinn abuses his new-found knowledge of the literary canon.
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It's that time of year again, when the most important awards in scientific research are announced. That's right, it's the IgNobel Prizes! We're a little late but here are the latest and greatest in scientific discoveries that first make you laugh, then make you think.
List of all IgNobel laureates.
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For our final episode of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer, we're finally ranking Marie and Pierre Curie! Come learn even more details about their life that we couldn't fit directly into the narrative, and find out if both Curies get Nobelesse Oblige.
Marie and Pierre with their bikes
Pierre Curie
Marie Curie 1903
Marie Curie 1911
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It's episode 4 of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer, and we are wrapping up the life of Marie Curie. Find out how we go from... everything that's happened, to the Marie Curie that we know today.
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We're on part 3 of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer, and y'all might want to sit down for this one. Today we're covering Marie's life from the death of Pierre to the beginning of WWI, and somehow neither of those are the most shocking event that happens.
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It's part 2 of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer! This episode we revisit the joint career of Pierre and Marie Curie, but from Marie's perspective.
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Welcome to our first episode of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer! Today we're discussing Marie's early life in Poland and her time in France up to her marriage to Pierre. Oh, and there's a brief summary of 300 years of Polish history.
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Happy birthday to Pierre Curie! In celebration, we're taking a look at his fascinating life and untimely death. This part one of our 3(?) part series on the Curies.
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We promise this isn't an April Fool's Joke, it's Henri Becquerel! Not only did he discover radioactivity, he also... uhhh... oh, who are we kidding, this is a prelude for the Curies. Stick around until the end, though. We have some important announcements.
Henri Becquerel
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The Zeeman episode is finally here! Does the second Physics Laureate for 1902 have Nobelesse Oblige, or is he just a guy?
Pieter Zeeman
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Quinn was invited to help Matt from Ranking '76 redeem himself in this trivia gameshow, alongside some other lovely Rexy folks. Let's see how that worked out for them...
Check out our amazing sister Rexy Pods:
Pontifacts
Ranking '76
Tsar Power
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What happens when a physics professor who is interested in the intersection of physics, religion and philosophy starts saving a bunch of papers? We brought Elspeth Olson on to discuss some of them.
Thank you to the University of Nevada, Reno for sharing these resources with us.
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We're sneaking it in at the end of the year, but here is our episode on Hendrik Lorentz. The leading figure of Dutch physics at the turn of the century had a hand in many of the developments in physics at that time, but is it enough to earn him Nobelesse Oblige?
Examples of atomic spectral lines
Hendrik Lorentz
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Appropriately, this episode is being released on the 127th anniversary of Wilhelm Röntgen's Nobel winning research. Find out the wild story of his big discovery and whether it was enough to get him Nobelesse Oblige.
Bertha's hand
Wilhelm and Bertha Röntgen
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It turns out covering millennia of physics history in less than 2 hours is a herculean task, but we did it anyway! We go through a fast and dirty overview of the development of physics up to 1900 and cover some of the basics that we'll need to understand the Physics Nobel Prizes.
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This year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig. Learn how their work shaped the response to the 2008 financial crisis.
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