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Article: Physics.(Nobel prizes: The sweet smell of success: olfactory genes, subatomic particles, and the molecular kiss of death)
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- October 9, 2004
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Three physicists who developed a theory to explain the strong interaction that holds together atomic nuclei--one of the four basic forces in the universe--have won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics.
David J. Gross of the University of California, Santa Barbara, H. David Politzer of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT) will share the $1.36 million prize.
Early last century, scientists discovered that atoms--once thought to be the smallest building blocks of matter--actually are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Atom-smashing experiments in the late 1960s confirmed ...