Question
In 1988, this physicist and Joseph Johnson III founded the Edward Bouchet Institute to promote physics in Africa, named after the first African American to earn a PhD in physics in the US. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this physicist who founded the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste. Along with two Americans, this Pakistani physicist won the 1979 Nobel in Physics for electroweak theory.
ANSWER: Abdus Salam [or Mohammad Abdus Salam]
[10e] Among the efforts coordinated by the Edward Bouchet Institute include the establishment of the African Laser Center in this country. The SKA-Mid is being built in this country’s Karoo region, north of Cape Town.
ANSWER: South Africa
[10m] Edward Bouchet also names an APS award recognizing underrepresented physicists, whose 2020 winner, Nadya Mason, has studied Andreev bound states in this material. Bilayers of this material are superconductive at “magic angles” like 1.05 degrees.
ANSWER: graphene
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
Data
| Bristol | Birmingham | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Edinburgh | Durham | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |