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Life beyond the Nobel: why physicists love to leave the herd

10 Nov 2021 Matin Durrani
Taken from the November 2021 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Life beyond the Nobel".

Many physicists who win a Nobel prize find the freedom it brings lets them carve out new research paths. But often the shift in focus began long before their prize was conferred, as Physics World editors discover

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When Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi received the time-honoured phone call from

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