347: Brian Keating | Losing the Nobel Prize
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Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Brian Keating (@DrBrianKeating) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California San Diego, host of the Into the Impossible podcast, and the author of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor.
What We Discuss with Brian Keating:- What compelled dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel to annually reward outstanding contributions for humanity, and how would he feel about the way Nobel prizes are awarded today?
- What is an ethical will, and why should you make sure you have one in place sooner rather than later?
- How accolades like the Nobel prize and the Academy Awards have taken on outsized importance in their respective fields in spite of being selected arbitrarily by an anointed few — with sometimes deadly consequences.
- How Brian turned around surface losses like getting fired from an academic dream job and missing his shot at the Nobel prize from disasters into catalysts of great happiness.
- How you can have a chance at winning a fragment of the 4.3-billion-year-old supernova that created Earth and the hemoglobin in your blood!
- And much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:06.3 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
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| 0:35.4 | So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, you'll be right at home here with |
| 0:38.8 | us. |
| 0:39.8 | Today on the show, my friend Brian Keating. |
| 0:42.4 | He's a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California. |
| 0:46.8 | He leads a hundred million dollar observatory, which is just way more responsibility than |
| 0:51.5 | I would ever want for myself. |
| 0:53.1 | He's a best-selling author, he's a jet pilot, he's a mouthful of this guy. |
| 0:57.2 | He's won the presidential award for scientists and engineers, but most importantly, he did |
| 1:01.4 | not win the Nobel Prize. |
| 1:03.6 | And that in part is what we're going to talk about here today with Brian Keating, author |
| 1:07.5 | of the hilariously titled, Losing the Nobel Prize. |
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