Thursday, 18 November 2010

Question for Nov 18 - PS

Connect the two:

1) A live frog levitates inside a 32 mm diameter vertical bore of a Bitter solenoid in a magnetic field of about 16 teslas at the High Field Magnet Laboratory

2) An atomic-scale honeycomb lattice made of carbon atoms.

8 comments:

Rahul said...

The second is probably graphene for which the physics Nobel was awarded this year so I'm guessing both have to do with Nobel prize winning research

Nikhil said...

Technologies that inspired the design of the World Cup soccer ball?

Anonymous said...

Ig Nobel prize winners

shiv said...

2nd pic is the structure of graphene... and the levitating frog is related to the work involving graphene done by the scientists who receive the Nobel prize for physics this yr. So the connect is the Nobel prize for Physics'10

anangrawat said...

Ndre Geim. the things for which he got the Noble and the Ignoble

anangrawat said...

I meant Andre Geim

Srini Iyer said...

superconduction??

The Answer said...

1 is the levitating frog experiment that won Andre Geim the Ignobel prize.
2 is Graphene which won him the Nobel prize in physics this year.

The connect is Andre Geim, the only person to have won both the Nobel and the Ignobel prize :)

Congrats anangrawat.
Good attempts by Rahul, Shiv and anon. Rahul and Shiv figured the nobel prize and anon figured the ignobel prize :)