L’unico scienziato irlandese vincitore del premio Nobel, e quasi nessuno ne parla o ne ha sentito parlare.
Nato a Waterford, studiò al Trinity e fu letteralmente la prima persona a dividere l’atomo (con Cockcroft, nel 1932). Quel lavoro cambiò per sempre la fisica e gli valse il Nobel nel ’51.
Celebriamo poeti e ribelli (è giusto così), ma forse è ora di dare un po’ più credito all’irlandese che ha rotto l’atomo.
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di SouthEastMeerkat
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💯 – Robot Boyle always gets the limelight amongst Irish scientists.
I also think an honorable mention should go to the little known physicist, Erwin Schrödinger – ok maybe well known, but always remembered for his Austrian birth – but he was a naturalised Irishman
Schrodinger has a whole building in UL!
The SETU has the Walton Institute (on its own mini campus overlooking the river Suir) which is where the clever clogs invent tomorrow.
Btw Robert Boyle was also a Deise man
His great grandson (or great great) is a shit hot product designer / inventor of sorts too, still lives in Ireland. Ian Walton?
He isn’t the only Irish scientist to win it.
Also, the research wasn’t conducted here. I don’t think we cover ourselves in glory in that respect.
> Ireland’s only Nobel Prize-winning scientist
He was until [William C. Campbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Campbell_(scientist)) won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015.