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Losing the Nobel Prize
Brian Keating ISBN 9781324000914
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Brian Keating ISBN 9781324000914
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This book by Brian Keating has come up 4 times across 4 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Diary of a CEO, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Brian Keating, Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-01-18 and the most recent from 2025-01-20. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology's biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize. What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, thought they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement, and Nobel whispers began to spread. But had these cosmologists truly read the cosmic prologue or, driven by ambition in pursuit of Nobel gold, had they been deceived by a galactic mirage?
“spoiler alert my first book is called losing the Nobel Prize because we had a retracted discovery that we made at Harvard”— Brian Keating
The guest here is Dr. Brian Keating: Professor of cosmology at UC San Diego who built telescopes at the South Pole to study the cosmic microwave background. He led the BICEP experiment, made a headline 2014 'discovery' of the universe's origin that was later retracted, and wrote 'Losing the Nobel Prize.'. Cosmologist Brian Keating takes Huberman on the most zoomed-out tour of the podcast: telescopes, time, the Big Bang, and a lost Nobel Prize.
“spoiler alert my first book's called losing the Nobel Prize but there's only you know at most three people that can win a Nobel Prize every year in my field”— Brian Keating
The guest here is Brian Keating: Astrophysicist and professor at UC San Diego, known for the BICEP South Pole experiment and the books 'Losing the Nobel Prize' and 'Into the Impossible'. He leads work on the Simons Observatory in Chile probing the birth of the universe. Astrophysicist Brian Keating on his $200M experiment to probe the universe's origin, where God fits into science, and whether we're alone.
“I mean my book is called losing the nuball prize my first book and spoiler alert you know I didn't win the nuball prize”— Brian Keating
The guest here is Brian Keating: Cosmologist and physics professor at UC San Diego, leader on the Simons Observatory in Chile, author of 'Losing the Nobel Prize' and host of the 'Into the Impossible' podcast. Astrophysicist Brian Keating brings telescopes, meteorites and a Mars rock to argue intelligent alien life is vanishingly unlikely and to demystify cosmology.
“experimental physicist at ussd and author of losing the nobel prize and into the impossible”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Brian Keating: Experimental physicist and cosmologist at UC San Diego, author of 'Losing the Nobel Prize' and host of the 'Into the Impossible' podcast. He led the BICEP1 telescope project hunting for evidence of cosmic inflation in the early universe. Cosmologist Brian Keating on the birth of the universe, the heartbreak of nearly winning the Nobel Prize, and why science is an infinite game.
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