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How to rotate your mattress like a physics Nobel prizewinner

07 Oct 2024 Margaret Harris

Ahead of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics, Physics World editors recall amusing brushes with Nobel laureates past and present. Here, Margaret Harris remembers a tongue-in-cheek e-mail exchange with 1973 laureate Brian Josephson

A photo of Brian Josephson's paper on mattress rotation, located below a mattress being lifted up for rotation
This is how it's done: Brian Josephson's tongue-in-cheek "paper" on mattress rotation recommends placing the rotation algorithm beneath one's mattress as a reminder. (Courtesy: Margaret Harris)
Amid the hype of Nobel Prize week, it’s important to remember that in many respects, Nobel laureat

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Margaret Harris is an online editor of Physics World
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