Brit wins Nobel Prize for Physics

[sasguru]

Oh hang on, he's Chinese really, so probably had a rigorous education

Sign of the times:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...009?CMP=AFCYAH

[sasguru]

And we were saying earlier about Polytechnics?

Ah well there's always the exception that proves the rule.
Perhaps its his Chineseness that makes him buck the system

Thinking about it, I bet he's the first person from a polytechnic to win the Nobel prize after they got dumbed down.
But as they used to be centres of technical (as opposed ot academic) excellence, I wouldn't be surprised to see that someone else from a poly had a Nobel prize , probably around the turn of the century.

[TimberWolf]

Did he patent optical fibre and make a mint though?

[bornfree]

another one in chemistry ... but hang on , he is indian born

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/c...aureates/2009/

[Scary]

another one in chemistry ... but hang on , he is indian born

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/c...aureates/2009/

An Indian-born American, working in Cambridge (England).