Berkeley’s Latest Top Dog

During last week’s football game against Duke, Cal players wore helmet decals featuring the number 59. The number celebrates the number of Nobel laureates that have been affiliated with the school’s Berkeley campus. Sadly, Duke won the game. Maybe Cal should have been more forward thinking and featured the number 60. Three scientists at US universities win Nobel Prize in physics for advancing quantum technology, including John Clarke, 83, who conducted his research at the University of California, Berkeley. (Go Bears.)

+ “Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday afternoon after camping and hiking across the Rocky Mountains when his wife, Laura O’Neill, suddenly started shouting. He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear.” His off-the-grid vacation was interrupted by winning a Nobel Prize for research into the immune system. (None of today’s quantum technology winners were off the grid…)