Congratulations to Margaret Harris for winning the “Feature of the Year – specialist audience” award from the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW). The Physics World online editor was cited for her article “The physics Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of”. The ABSW describes the article as: “A refreshing angle to Nobel prize reporting. It was an eye-opener, told a great story and gave some deep historical context to the murky world of who wins the Nobels and why.”
In the run-up to each year’s Nobel prize announcements, Physics World editors explore aspects of the award that have often been neglected. As well as her award-winning article from 2025, Harris has argued the case that Lise Meitner should have won a Nobel for her work on nuclear fission (“Overlooked for the Nobel: Lise Meitner”). On a lighter note, Harris has described an e-mail exchange with physics laureate Brian Josephson about his tongue-in-cheek “paper” on mattress rotation (“How to rotate your mattress like a physics Nobel prizewinner”).
