Ilana Ilianescu's thesis, the product of years of research in mathematics and astrophysics, promised to set the science world spinning.
Essentially, she'd demonstrated that solar luminescence could be calibrated according to a fixed carbon crystal reflection/refraction scale, which combined with Einsteinian laws could calculate the exact position of every celestial object in the universe.
Unfortunately she couldn't speak a word of English and could only afford a budget online Romanian-English translation service. It wasn't great.
She didn't win the Nobel Prize for Physics. But her thesis captured the imagination of the Nobel Literature Prize judges instead: "Twinkle, twinkle little star..."
Essentially, she'd demonstrated that solar luminescence could be calibrated according to a fixed carbon crystal reflection/refraction scale, which combined with Einsteinian laws could calculate the exact position of every celestial object in the universe.
Unfortunately she couldn't speak a word of English and could only afford a budget online Romanian-English translation service. It wasn't great.
She didn't win the Nobel Prize for Physics. But her thesis captured the imagination of the Nobel Literature Prize judges instead: "Twinkle, twinkle little star..."
