It’s that time of year again, a time filled with anticipation and excitement just bubbling to overflow. That’s right folks: Nobel Prize Award Show Season! And, surprise, surprise, the UofC took home another one Tuesday thanks to the “physical” efforts of Yoichiro Nambu for "the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" (duh) along with two other Japanese physicists. What is this, like our 82nd? But who’s counting? Well aside from Cambridge. Roger Tsien, a graduate of Cambridge U, won the Chemistry award today shooting their numbers up to 83 and stealing some of the spotlight. But the race isn’t over yet... ((http://nobelprize.org/nobelfoundation/press/2008/announcements_08.html)

So if you’re upset you couldn’t make it to the press conference on Tuesday there’s a reception Friday at the Gordon Center to celebrate another Nobel (and noble) member of the greater Chicago community. This is our 25th Nobel in Physics and UofC has won in every category EXCEPT Peace (wikipedia.org). But next week still includes Peace and Economics so hope is not completely lost (although it doesn’t look completely promising). So again, congratulations Nambu, boosting our status further and defending our showcase, the largest in North America. And peace out for now because apparently peace is something we need to work on.