Note the typo (from Yahoo News): Nobel Prize Awared in Physics, Chemistry – LOL – Freudian slip of consciousness somehow? Here’s the link for the article too, just cuz, and the lead in: Three scientists who laid the foundations of information technology and the computer revolution won the Nobel Physics prize on Tuesday. The prestigious award, worth nearly $1 million this year, went to men who paved the way for computers, CD players and mobile telephones, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said… The researchers’ work has laid the foundations of modern information technology, IT, particularly through their invention of rapid transistors, laser diodes, and integrated circuits (chips).