Cosmology continues to top the Physics Top Ten (papers #1, #4, #8, and #9), but the superconductivity renaissance means that condensed matter physics now has five contenders (#2, #3, #5, #7, and #10). Paper #1, however, on the 5-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) dataset, has roared so far ahead (138 citations this period) that it would appear unlikely that laboratory physics can capture pole position any time soon. But who knows what mighty shake-up the Large Hadron Collider could achieve in a year or so?rnPaper #9, a new entrant, is from the Supernova Cosmology Project, a consortium headed by Saul Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California); this team won a half share in the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize, the other laureate being the High-z Supernova Search Team led byrnBrian Schmidt (Australian National University).
展开▼
