Think Like A Nobel Prize Winner
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsHow can you unlock creativity and imagination to inspire, teach and lead? What mental models do some of the world’s brightest minds use to supercharge their creativity, and strengthen their most precious collaborations? Along the way you’ll discover that achieving greatness doesn’t require genius. Instead, dedication to a simple set of principles—habits and tools -- can boost your creativity, stoke your imagination, and unlock your full potential for out-of-this-universe success.
On this podcast you’ll discover why Nobel Prize-winning scientists credit the often-overlooked “soft skills” such as communication, motivation, and introspection as keys to their success. You’ll see why they turn to curiosity, beauty, serendipity, and joy when they need to turn fresh eyes on some of the universe’s most vexing problems...and how you can too no matter what you do!
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Part 2: Sir Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff: What is Consciousness?
August 08, 2022 12:00 - 1 hourA conversation with Nobel Prize Winner and renowned mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Dr. Stuart Hameroff about consciousness and quantum mechanics. Sir Roger Penrose and Dr. Stuart Hameroff have tackled one of the most vexing problems in science -- how does consciousness work? Their theories of consciousness were selected by the Templeton Foundation for study. We will discuss Is the brain a sophisticated computer or an intuitive thinking device? Following on from ...
Part 1: Sir Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff: What is Consciousness?
August 08, 2022 01:31 - 31 minutesA conversation with Nobel Prize Winner and renowned mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Dr. Stuart Hameroff about consciousness and quantum mechanics. Sir Roger Penrose and Dr. Stuart Hameroff have tackled one of the most vexing problems in science -- how does consciousness work? Their theories of consciousness were selected by the Templeton Foundation for study. We will discuss Is the brain a sophisticated computer or an intuitive thinking device? Following on from ...
James Webb Space Telescope First Results Q & A with Project Scientist John Mather, Nobel Prizewinner
July 17, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes@NASAWebb Senior Project Scientist, and @NobelPrize winner, John Mather answers questions about the JWST from listeners of Into The Impossible. 📺 Watch my #JWST explainer here https://youtu.be/1MjR_A5oDyI Please join my mailing list; for your chance to win 4 billion year old space dust click here 👉 briankeating.com/list 📝 Get your copy of Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner here: https://urlgeni.us/amzn/TLANPW Please join my mailing list to win cool prizes; click here 👉 briankeating.com/list 📝 ...
The Elusive Higgs Boson: Frank Close
July 13, 2022 16:36 - 1 hourElusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass marks the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs Boson. On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass, had finally been discovered. On the rostrum, surrounded by jostling physicists and media, was the particle’s retiring namesake—the only person in history to have an existing single-particle named...
Nobel Prize Winner Adam Riess: The Hubble Tension is Getting WORSE!
May 29, 2022 12:00 - 1 hourChat with Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess about his team's newest measurements of the 'most important number in cosmology' the Hubble Constant. Using the Hubble Space Telescope for what it was meant to do, Adam's team continues to make ultra-precise measurements. We'll also explore the Hubble Tension, the future of Hubble now that the James Webb Space Telescope has deployed, and other cosmic conundrums. Adam is a brilliant teacher and a wonderful raconteur. Don't miss your chance to chat with a...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Mentors, Pulsars & Prizes
February 16, 2022 21:17 - 1 hourIn 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discovery. On 28 November 1967, she detected a "bit of scruff" on her chart-recorder papers that tracked across the sky with the stars. The signal had been visible in data taken in August, but as the papers had to be checked by hand, it took her three months to find it. She established that the signal was pulsing with great regularity, at a rate of about one pulse every one and a third seconds. Temporarily dubbed "Little Green Man 1" (LGM-1) th...
Nobel Prizewinner Reinhard Genzel: The Monster Black Hole at the Heart of our Galaxy!
January 25, 2022 19:42 - 1 hour#BlackHole #Singularity #AdaptiveOptics Reinhard Genzel studied physics at Bonn Univ., and received his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy Bonn (1978), He was a Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1978-1980), Cambridge, MA, was Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Research Astronomer, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (1981- 1985), Full Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1985-1986). ...
The Best Guest I Never Had | An Elegy for Steven Weinberg
December 29, 2021 00:27 - 1 hourThis episode is sort of "fan fiction" conversation with a dead man who will cast a shadow over physics, philosophy, and theology for decades to come: Steven Weinberg, co-recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize. Long before audiobooks and podcasts were a thing, in 1992 I took a night train from Cleveland to Buffalo to Binghamton to meet my girlfriend. To while away the hours, I brought with me Weingberg's epochal popular science book, "The First Three Minutes". A few months later, as a graduation pr...
Brian Schmidt:Nobel Prizewinner: Cosmic Acceleration and Collaboration
December 15, 2021 23:28 - 1 hourBrian Schmidt, is an astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, formerly known as Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories. He works in several areas of astronomy, most notably with exploding stars called supernovae. He also chases Gamma-Ray Bursts, and is heading a project to build a new Telescope that will map the Southern Sky called SkyMapper. Brian was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 for the discovery of the accelera...
Barry Barish Interviews Brian Keating: Part 2
November 03, 2021 22:18 - 45 minutesIn February 2021 Dr. Barry Barish, co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the LIGO experiment, interviewed me at his home in Los Angeles. The topic was his thoughts and reactions to my book, Losing the Nobel Prize (http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA). We discussed scientific leadership, academic stress, burnout, the role of mentors and managers in science and a lot about my book too. Losing The Nobel Prize By Brian Keating The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mys...
Barry Barish Interviews Brian Keating: Part 1
November 03, 2021 22:10 - 54 minutesIn February 2021 Dr. Barry Barish, co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the LIGO experiment, interviewed me at his home in Los Angeles. The topic was his thoughts and reactions to my book, Losing the Nobel Prize (http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA). We discussed scientific leadership, academic stress, burnout, the role of mentors and managers in science and a lot about my book too. Losing The Nobel Prize By Brian Keating The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mys...
James Altucher Interviews Brian Keating About Think Like A Nobel Prize Winner
October 18, 2021 18:45 - 1 hourDr. Brian Keating talks about his new book Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner. James and Brian discussed the traits of the Nobel Prize Winners, and what it means for them! James Altucher interviews the world’s leading peak performers in every area of life. But instead of giving you the typical success story, James digs deeper to find the “Choose Yourself” story—these are the moments we relate to… when someone rises up from personal struggle to reinvent themselves. https://jamesaltucher.com/ Avai...
Barry Barish: The Avuncular Avatar
October 06, 2021 21:47 - 1 hourBarry Barish is the Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Caltech and faculty member at UC Riverside. He became director of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) project in 1997. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rai Weiss and Kip Thorne and their teams “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” Before joining the LIGO experiment, he worked on the Superconducting Super Collider, the high...
Brian Keating: Author Hour Interview on Think Like A Nobel Prize Winner
October 06, 2021 03:07 - 37 minutesBrian Keating: Author Hour Interview on Think Like A Nobel Prize Winner. Available on Amazon: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner About Professor Brian Keating: https://www.youtube.com/drbriankeating Podcast in iTunes https://simonsobservatory.org/ https://briankeating.com/ https://bkeating.physics.ucsd.edu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbriankeating/
John Mather: The Collaborator
October 06, 2021 02:41 - 1 hourJohn Mather is a senior astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a professor of physics at the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. In 2006, he and George Smoot were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.” The work, completed along with their teams, used the COBE satellite to all but confirm the Big Bang theory—and elevated cosmologis...
Think Like A Nobel Prize Winner: An Introduction From Professor Brian Keating
September 27, 2021 14:20 - 33 minutesAvailable on Amazon: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner About Professor Brian Keating: https://www.youtube.com/drbriankeating Podcast in iTunes https://simonsobservatory.org/ https://briankeating.com/ https://bkeating.physics.ucsd.edu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbriankeating/
Frank Wilczek: A Beautiful Mind
September 27, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourFrank Wilczek is a physics professor at MIT, Arizona State University, and Stockholm University. He won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.” The work, which revolutionized quantum physics, was conducted thirty-one years prior, when Wilczek was a graduate student at Princeton. He has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences ...
Rainer Weiss: The Tinkerer
September 27, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutesRai Weiss is a professor emeritus at MIT, where he also earned his undergraduate degree and PhD. He, along with Barry Barish and Kip Thorne, won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” work that was completed with the rest of their team of more than a thousand scientists, engineers, technicians, and managers. He has won numerous awards for his pioneering work on both the COBE (NASA’s Cosmic Background Explor...
Roger Penrose: The Singular Mind
September 27, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutesIn 2020, Roger Penrose received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity,” work he did along with his team in the 1960s. He is also a mathematician, philosopher, and the author of several books, including 1989’s The Emperor’s New Mind, an exploration of consciousness and quantum mechanics, which not only had a profound influence on me in my youth but is also part of why I chose to write a popular science...
Sheldon Glashow: The Nucleator
September 27, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourIn 1979, Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Wein- berg were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and elec- tromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....” Born in Manhattan in 1932 to Russian immigrant parents, he is now a professor emeritus of physics at Harvard University and professor emeritus of mathematics and physics at Boston University. Like a nexus, he’s seemingly connected in one way or another to almost all of...
Duncan Haldane: The Alchemist
September 27, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutesDuncan Haldane is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. In 2016, he, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz, received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.” There are many remarkable things about Duncan Haldane, not least his devilishly delightful sense of humor and his ability to playfully take on the most complicated matters. I also admire his intelle...
Carl Wieman: The Teacher's Teacher
September 27, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutesCarl Wieman is a professor of physics at Stanford Uni- versity, professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and a DRC professor in the Stanford Univer- sity School of Engineering. In 2001, he—along with Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and their teams—was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.” He was also a recipient of the ...
Adam Riess: The Star Gazer
September 27, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourAdam Riess is a distinguished professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University and an astronomer at the Space Tele- scope Science Institute. In 2011, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Brian Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.” The work— done by a team—was recognized almost immediately (in Nobel years, at least), making Adam one of the youngest winners ever of the physics prize at age ...