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Who will win this year’s Nobel Prize?

24 Sep 1999

On October 12 the Nobel Foundation will announce the winners of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Who do you think will win? Will the prize be awarded for the discovery of the top quark, Bose-Einstein condensation, the gluon, the semiconductor laser, the anisotropy in the cosmic background radiation, the geometric phase, experiments on Bell’s inequalities, neutrino oscillations, giant magnetoresistance, quasicrystals, molecular beam epitaxy, quantum chromodynamics or something else?

Please send us up to three names and tell us in less than 100 words why you think they deserve the prize. The closing date for submissions is Wednesday October 6. PhysicsWeb will publish a summary of your suggestions on Friday October 8.

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