Nobel prize in physics for Big Bang Theory

George F. Smoot of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their research that found the first overwhelming evidence for the Big Bang as the origin of the universe.
Using satellite data, Smoot's team at Berkeley detected faint temperature variations -- termed "ripples" -- in the background radiation left over from that cosmic explosion nearly 14 billion years ago and determined that the variations were the very first glimmerings of light from galaxies and stars that began forming some 380,000 years after the universe blasted out from a single primordial nucleus in space-time.

Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- American Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, honoured for his work on how information stored within a gene is copied and transferred to the parts of cells that produce proteins.

Kornberg was the first to create an actual picture of this process at the molecular level, in the important group of organisms called eukaryotes -- which, as opposed to bacteria, have well-defined cell nuclei. Mammals, as well as ordinary yeast, belong to this group of organisms.

I don't think you really have a handle on your audience ByrdBrain.

Had the original posting contained the word "nipples" rather than "ripples" this thread might have been a runner. However under the circumstances it will be consigned to a watery grave alongside topics such as "What temperature do you like your bathwater?" and "Is it immoral to eat goldfish?".

American are sweeping up awards this year!
American wins Nobel chemistry prize for gene work

Don't forget the two American's for Medicine too.

Compared to last year's Nobel, awarded to a couple of doctors who found that there is a disease caused by a bacterium

well, having studied at the University with the highest per capita number of Nobel prizes

tsk, Harvard is third. I went to the real Cambridge - 83 Nobel prizes of which 70 were graduates of the university

George F. Smoot of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their research that found the first overwhelming evidence for the Big Bang as the origin of the universe.

Using satellite data, Smoot's team at Berkeley detected faint temperature variations -- termed "ripples" -- in the background radiation left over from that cosmic explosion nearly 14 billion years ago and determined that the variations were the very first glimmerings of light from galaxies and stars that began forming some 380,000 years after the universe blasted out from a single primordial nucleus in space-time.