We're taking the plunge into the Literature prizes! Join us as Maggie gives us a crash course on literary history and theory, and Quinn abuses his new-found knowledge of the literary canon. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nobelesseoblige
This is the episode that we finally banish the ether from our podcast. Sort of... Join us as we explore the life of Albert A. Michelson, which has way more twists and turns than you would expect for a guy who made his whole career repeating the same measurement. Foucault light speed experiment Michelson interferometer Example of Albert's watercolors Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @No...
We return to merry old England this episode as we cover our next physics laureate. Listen as we describe what is often considered the most productive period of the Cavendish Laboratory, and what else JJ was up to besides. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https:/...
Content Warning: This episode's subject was literally a Nazi This episode, we see what happens when bigotry gets in the way of science. Then, because Quinn is petty, we have a nice palette cleanser. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nobelesseoblige
After a much longer than anticipated delay, here's our episode on John William Strutt, aka Lord Rayleigh. He did a lot, but is it enough to get him Nobelesse Oblige? Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nobelesseoblige
For our final episode of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer, we're finally ranking Marie and Pierre Curie! Come learn even more details about their life that we couldn't fit directly into the narrative, and find out if both Curies get Nobelesse Oblige. Marie and Pierre with their bikes Pierre Curie Marie Curie 1903 Marie Curie 1911 Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Blu...
It's episode 4 of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer, and we are wrapping up the life of Marie Curie. Find out how we go from... everything that's happened, to the Marie Curie that we know today. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nobelesseoblige
We're on part 3 of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer, and y'all might want to sit down for this one. Today we're covering Marie's life from the death of Pierre to the beginning of WWI, and somehow neither of those are the most shocking event that happens. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod ...
It's part 2 of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer! This episode we revisit the joint career of Pierre and Marie Curie, but from Marie's perspective. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nobelesseoblige
Welcome to our first episode of ☢️Hot☢️ Girl Summer! Today we're discussing Marie's early life in Poland and her time in France up to her marriage to Pierre. Oh, and there's a brief summary of 300 years of Polish history. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi...
Happy birthday to Pierre Curie! In celebration, we're taking a look at his fascinating life and untimely death. This part one of our 3(?) part series on the Curies. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nobelesseoblige
We promise this isn't an April Fool's Joke, it's Henri Becquerel! Not only did he discover radioactivity, he also... uhhh... oh, who are we kidding, this is a prelude for the Curies. Stick around until the end, though. We have some important announcements. Henri Becquerel Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https...
The Zeeman episode is finally here! Does the second Physics Laureate for 1902 have Nobelesse Oblige, or is he just a guy? Pieter Zeeman Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nobelesseoblige
What happens when a physics professor who is interested in the intersection of physics, religion and philosophy starts saving a bunch of papers? We brought Elspeth Olson on to discuss some of them. Thank you to the University of Nevada, Reno for sharing these resources with us. Contact UNR Special Collections Twitter: @unrSpC Facebook: @UNRSpecialCollections Instagram: @unrspc Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitte...
We're sneaking it in at the end of the year, but here is our episode on Hendrik Lorentz. The leading figure of Dutch physics at the turn of the century had a hand in many of the developments in physics at that time, but is it enough to earn him Nobelesse Oblige? Examples of atomic spectral lines Hendrik Lorentz Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: ...
Appropriately, this episode is being released on the 127th anniversary of Wilhelm Röntgen's Nobel winning research. Find out the wild story of his big discovery and whether it was enough to get him Nobelesse Oblige. Bertha's hand Wilhelm and Bertha Röntgen Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.c...
It turns out covering millennia of physics history in less than 2 hours is a herculean task, but we did it anyway! We go through a fast and dirty overview of the development of physics up to 1900 and cover some of the basics that we'll need to understand the Physics Nobel Prizes. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon...
We finally have our summary of the 34th First Annual IgNobel Prizes. Join us as we look at the first in person ceremony since COVID, and learn about some crazy research that first makes you laugh, then makes you think! 2024 IgNobel Prizes: https://improbable.com/ig/archive/2024-ceremony/ Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social...
After a long and unexpected hiatus, we are back with our 2024 Nobel Prize Summary! Join us as we talk about AI, and also AI, and nukes...I promise there's some happy stuff too. Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nobelesseoblige
Just in time for this year's Nobel Prize ceremony, we have our episode explaining this year's Nobel Prizes. Enjoy listening to us try to explain mRNA vaccines, rage against misogyny, and... wait, is that the Romans? Contact Us Email: nobelesseoblige1901@gmail.com Website: https://nobelesseoblige.buzzsprout.com Facebook and Twitter: @NobelessePod Mastodon: @NobelessePod@historians.social Bluesky: @nobelessepod.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NobelessePod Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/n...