#051 - Dr Brian Keating - Losing The Nobel Prize

Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 7 a.m.

b"Brian Keating is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Centre for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at University of California.\\nHow would it feel to almost receive the Nobel Prize and have it torn from your grasp? Today we're going to find out, albeit at Professor Keating's expense.\\nExpect to learn what it takes to build a telescope that can detect the farthest regions of space in the Antarctic, what the Nobel Prize originally set out to achieve and how the politics of the physics community can often get in the way of progress.\\nExtra Stuff:\\nBrian's Website - https://briankeating.com/\\nLosing The Nobel Prize -\\xa0https://www.amazon.co.uk/Losing-Nobel-Prize-Cosmology-Ambition/dp/1324000910/\\nCheck out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link -\\xa0https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom\\n-\\nGet in touch.\\xa0Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...\\nInstagram:\\xa0https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx\\nTwitter:\\xa0https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx\\nYouTube:\\xa0https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast\\nEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"