The word chiral comes from the Greek word cheir, which means hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public] Reference
The term chiral is derived from a word in ancient Greek, meaning hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The word chiral derives from the Greek word ceir (cheir), meaning hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001] Reference
Such molecules are called "chiral" after the Greek work cheir meaning hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Presentation Speech] Reference
I'm not sure I understand "chiral" though, how does "handed" convey the idea of …. From Wordnik.com. [elzr] Reference
Our research theme at that time was on chiral symmetry. From Wordnik.com. [Makoto Kobayashi - Autobiography] Reference
If psi is Weyl it means it is chiral, so it has to be massless. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
For chiral gauge theories we have not yet progressed beyond (i). From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
(A) was replaced by one of the enantiomers of a chiral phosphine. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public] Reference
Renata Jora (Syracuse) “Linear sigma model with two chiral nonets”. From Wordnik.com. [A Crazy Physics Week I - The Syracuse-Cornell Joint Theory Meeting] Reference
In the chiral hydrogenation one of the enantiomers of DiPAMP was used. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public] Reference
Many important investigations refer to reactions between chiral molecules. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975 - Presentation Speech] Reference
That is why it is vital to be able to produce the two chiral forms separately. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
As for the second part, about the non-perturbative formulation of chiral gauge theories. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
Thus a not-obviously-inviable lattice formulation of chiral gauge theories is obtained. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
So a chiral fermion theory based on the left-handed Weyl fermion at s = 0 can be constructed. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
The catalyst molecule, which itself is chiral, speeds up the reaction without being consumed. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
So how did these two new ways to formulate chiral gauge theories on the lattice come together?. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
He has made several important discoveries which here are exemplified by his chiral epoxidation. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public] Reference
I see a huge amount of this kind of work on string theory, very little of it on chiral gauge theory. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
So we now for the first time have a framework for nonperturbative formulation of chiral gauge theories. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
In QFT itself, chiral gauge theories remain extremely poorly understood outside of perturbation theory. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
Similar calculations, for rotational invariance and chiral symmetry, are routine in lattice gauge theory. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference
Since it came up above, here is a bit about the current situation re. chiral gauge theories on the lattice. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
The handling of compounds with chiral methyl groups is an achievement of the highest intellectual standard. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975 - Presentation Speech] Reference
I was explicitly talking about chiral gauge theories, non-supersymmetric ones as context should have made clear. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
This is what is needed to complete the construction of the lattice chiral gauge theories in an anomaly-free way. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
Barry Sharpless has developed corresponding chiral catalysts for other important reactions, oxidation reactions. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001] Reference
Ryoji Noyori has led the further development of this process to today's general chiral catalysts for hydrogenation. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
The analogy to the standard idealised quantum measurements will be very close in the case of, say, the chiral molecule. From Wordnik.com. [...anything but love...] Reference
Morever, it was possible to show that from string theory one could also produce chiral matter and that anomalies cancelled. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
But this is different from the claim that we do not know, in principle, how to define chiral gauge theories on the lattice. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
There have also been attempts to formulate lattice constructions of chiral gauge theories, see hep-lat/0503011 and hep-lat/0510073. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
He has made several important discoveries, such as for chirally catalysed epoxidation, which utilises titanium in a chiral molecule. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001] Reference
For example, the QCD dynamics responsible for confinement and spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry still seems far from understood. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
In terms of the discrete symmetries of the theory, these chiral couplings result in the electroweak theory being maximally C-violating. From Wordnik.com. [Matter v Antimatter II: Electroweak Baryogenesis] Reference
Gravity, Einstein equation, matter fields with rough similarity to the real world (gauge fields, chiral fermions), they all just come out. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
My first research subject was on chiral symmetry, which was the direct application of Nambu's theory for which the Prize has been awarded. From Wordnik.com. [Makoto Kobayashi - Banquet Speech] Reference
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