Six Words: Cassette, Positive, Notorious, Density, Uncertainty, Interest
This week five of the Nobel Prize awards were announced. The prize in Physics is always the second one announced, and is usually the one that interests me the most, although they are often notoriously difficult to understand. This year’s Physics Prize was awarded to three people whose work in quantum mechanical tunneling seems to challenge the density of matter.
The Nobel Peace Prize was announced on Friday. While there was uncertainty about who the recipient would be, I was positive that a certain someone who has been campaigning for it would not be the recipient.
The three winners will split about $1.2M, but they’ll each get their own medal. Each medal will come in a nice cassette. Some will simply leave the cassette open to display it, but others will choose to frame it so they can hang it on a wall. I was surprised that the medals are made of green gold. I’d never heard of green gold until I researched what they are made of. The green gold medal is then gold plated, maybe so no one is green with envy?