Predictions for the 2002 Nobels
Anybody care to share their predictions for the 2002 Nobels? My personal pick for the physics prize: Ray Davis and John Bahcall for their work on the solar neutrino problem. Then in a few years time, others such as Art McDonald can win for discovering neutrino oscillations.
This is analogous to the 1997 and 2001 prizes. After Bose-Einstein condensates were created in 1995, there was an obvious Nobel prize. I guessed wrongly at that point that Wieman, Cornell and Ketterle would win the prize almost immediately. I forgot to take into account that there really needed to be a prize for the work that allowed them to create BECs. So the 1997 prize went to Cohen-Tannoudji, Phillips and Chu for their laser trapping and cooling. The BEC discovery was rewarded in 2001.
I want to hear your predictions for any of the prizes, either for the specific people or for the field of research.
