Names of winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced today in Stockholm – Radio Echo of Moscow

Among the contenders for the prestigious award and called Russians
One of the candidates is an American physicist of Chinese origin Peydun Yang. He created ultraviolet nanofiber laser that operates at room temperature, reminiscent to Gazeta.ru. Get the Nobel Prize may also professor of Cambridge, James Scott, Ramesh Ramamurthy from the United States and Yoshinori Tokura of Japan – their research related to information technology. Some experts do not rule out that the award will be awarded to authors of the inflationary theory of the birth of the universe, which was confirmed only this year. Among them are Russian scientists Alexei Starobinsky and Andrei Linde – the second, however, was replaced by the American citizenship. Another possible bidder of the number of our compatriots – Academician Yuri Hovhannisyan. Thanks to his work were able to synthesize many superheavy chemical elements.

In last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics received Briton Peter Higgs and Francois Engler for the theoretical discovery of the Higgs.