Nobel Prize controversies Chen-Ning Yang—by providing him in 1956 with a possible test method for beta decay that worked successfully. Her book "Beta Decay" (1965) is still a sine qua non reference for nuclear physicists. Several Nobel Prizes were awarded for research related to the concepts of the boson, Bose–Einstein statistics and Bose–Einstein condensate—the latest being the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics given for advancing the theory of Bose–Einstein condensates although Satyendra Nath Bose himself was not awarded the Nobel Prize. In his book "The Scientific Edge", physicist Jayant Narlikar observed: "SN Bose's work on particle statistics (c.1922), which clarified the behavior of
William Smythe (physicist) that future Nobel Prize in Economics laureate Vernon Smith switched to electrical engineering from physics to avoid it. Smythe's son, William Rodman Smythe, became a professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Smythe died in Boulder, Colorado, on July 6, 1988. William Smythe (physicist) William Ralph Smythe (1893–1988) was a physicist at California Institute of Technology. A native of Canon City, Colorado, he graduated from Colorado College and spent some time in Dartmouth College before his studies were interrupted by World War I. He eventually completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1921 under Nobel laureate