At the end of the turbulent 1960s, the postwar funding boom in US physics came to a crashing halt. The lessons learned then may be helpful to today’s physicists.
Despite the elegance of Paul Dirac’s theoretical work, the Nobel Committee nearly passed him over for the prize—until a timely experiment confirmed one of his predictions.
Although motivated by the fundamental exploration of the weirdness of the quantum world, the prizewinning experiments have led to a promising branch of quantum computing technology.
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