Popular Lecture on 'Losing the Nobel Prize' at Williams College
September 07, 2018
September 07, 2018
WILLIAMSTOWN, Massachusetts, Sept. 7 -- Williams College issued the following news release:
Brian Keating, an astrophysicist with the University of California, San Diego, thought he had a major discovery about the Universe, worthy of a Nobel Prize, but then a mistake in analysis was found. Major public announcements had to be rescinded, and his Nobel hopes vanished. He will speak about his new book, Losing the Nobel Prize - A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science&# . . .
Brian Keating, an astrophysicist with the University of California, San Diego, thought he had a major discovery about the Universe, worthy of a Nobel Prize, but then a mistake in analysis was found. Major public announcements had to be rescinded, and his Nobel hopes vanished. He will speak about his new book, Losing the Nobel Prize - A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science&# . . .