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In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "an unexpected and even contentious choice". [ 6 ] Having been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1966 New Year Honours , [ 38 ] Golding was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1988 Birthday ...
Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon of a group of particles being generated, interacting, or sharing spatial proximity in a manner such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance.
William Golding had been shortlisted by the Nobel committee ten years earlier, in 1973, as one of the final six contenders for the prize that year. [3] In 1983, William Golding and Claude Simon were the main candidates for the prize. An anonymous source in the Swedish Academy revealed that two rounds of voting were required before Golding ...
When two particles are entangled, the state of one is tied to the state of the other. Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo Library via Getty ImagesThe 2022 Nobel Prize in physics recognized three ...
Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, and John Clauser share the highest award in physics for their research on quantum entanglement. To Win the Nobel Prize in Physics, These Scientists Casually Proved ...
A Moving Target is a collection of essays and lectures written by William Golding. It was first published in 1982 [1] by Faber and Faber but subsequent reprints included Golding's Nobel Prize lecture which he gave after being awarded the honour in 1983. The book is divided into the two sections of "Places" and "Ideas".
John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics; he won the prize in 1915 at the age of 25. He was also the youngest laureate for any Nobel prize until 2014 (when Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17). [6]
To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of nautical novels—Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's ...