FG: MAFIA 31: Nobel Laureates of Doom

[Nikolai]

Hopefully...

[Jon Miller]

The physicists took Abrikosov and held him in an ice bath, until he was dead. "It is the way he would have liked to go," said Leggett. Perusal of his room turned up seveal of the missing prizes. Satisfied in their intellect, the physicists went to the hotel to sleep for the night. The hotel staff gave all the living physicists new keys when the arrived.

When Taylor went to unlock his door, he was electrocuted. The hotel staff all were completely shocked, "We had had ordered a security company to make a new electric locking system so we could tell when I door was opened and visually verify it on the security cameras"(also newly installed). The police were called and questioned the installer. "It wasn't suppose to electrocute anyone, a circuit was suppose to be completed when the key was entered in." When the police took appart the door, they discovered that the mechanism emplaced had been tampered with. The physicists all went to sleep, while the police continued the investigation.

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

missing prizes were:
Phillips
Osheroff
Laughlin

prize found on Gell-Mann was
Wilson

Jon Miller

[Hercules]

Ok it's getting down to analysis time. And there isn't that much to work on. Except only one mafia left and whose method of killing is electrocution, which could be any one of us. There was a suggestion that the killer sounded American.

The only remaining Amercan physicists are Adrian Hon (but a Brit) and Vlad Antlerkov (Texan?). Sparrowhawk is Canadian, but his alter ego is German?

As physicists we all have worked with electrical forces but only one as far as I can see with lasers Adagio (Zhores I. Alferov) and with solar power cells.

But there is a reference to a donut and that could be a reference to CERN.

That might pinpoint the scientists who worked there.
So still undecided. Anybody want to throw some further insight.

[Nikolai]

Today's it been a month since start up...

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
When Taylor went to unlock his door, he was electrocuted. The hotel staff all were completely shocked,
Jon Miller

No the hotel staff was completely stunned, Taylor was completely shocked........



ACK!

[Jon Miller]

really, a month?

I could swear that we have done more than 2 a week

Jon Miller
(I know that often I am late, or the killer(s) are late, but...)

[rah]

Hmm, it may be time to play word games with the initials of prizes taken or found.

[-Jrabbit]

Confirming Vlad Antlerkov and Adrian Hon are the only Americans left alive. But Kassi was Mafia and his physicist is Russian.

--There's only one other Russian on the list, Alferov (Adagio).
--Co-winner of the 1997 Nobel with Kassi (Abrikosov) was a Brit, Leggett (rah).

--The prizes found in kassi's room were from the winners from 1997 (Spaced and Spike) and 1998 (Skanky), all Americans.
--What's weird is that Phillips (Spaced) was killed by the group, not by Mafia, so why would that prize be in the room?
--The prize found on Gell-Mann (American, dead by Mafia) belonged to a Wilson (there were two Wilsons, both American, both dead by Mafia).

In fact, all Mafia kills so far have been Americans.

Looks to me like our Mafia were Gell-Mann (killed by Kassiopeia) and Abrikov (Kassiopeia).

So we're done! Glad I got that settled.

[Hercules]

I think another Mafia was recruited after Kass killed Tuberski.

[-Jrabbit]

Well, then we have a little problem, eh?

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Hercules
I think another Mafia was recruited after Kass killed Tuberski.

No. Way. That's exactly what happened with Star Trek Mafia too, which if true is going to make my brain explode.

[Adrian Hon]

I'm still mystified as to the identity of the Mafia. There's the early clue that the Mafia 'sounded American' but as Hercules has pointed out, that doesn't narrow things down much; there are still a couple of American nobelists left (including myself). Not entirely sure about the donut thing either - could be about accelerators or colliders like CERN or the ill-fated SSC. Haven't looked up the scientists for those yet though. Ho hum. Seems like a bit of a waiting game.

[Jon Miller]

there is a living mafia

Jon Miller

[Sparrowhawk]

Name

Physicist

Status



1. Kassiopeia

Alexei A. Abrikosov

Villagers



2. rah

Anthony J. Leggett
Alive


3. -Jrabbit

Gerardus 't Hooft

Alive


4. Nikolai

Steven Weinberg 
R1-Mafia


5. Spaced Cowboy

William D. Phillips

Mafia


6. Snotty

Carl E. Wieman

Villagers


7. Whoha

Frank Wilczek

Mafia


8. Adrian Hon

David J. Gross

Alive


9. Skanky Burns

Robert B. Laughlin

Mafia


10. Adagio

Zhores I. Alferov


Alive


11. DrSpike

Douglas D. Osheroff

R2-Mafia


12. Hercules

J. Georg Bednorz 
Alive


13. reismark

Russell A. Hulse

Villagers


14. civman2000

James Watson Cronin

Villagers


15. Lord Nuclear

Joseph H. Taylor Jr. 
Mafia


16. Sparrowhawk

Klaus von Klitzing

Alive


17. joncha

Robert Woodrow Wilson 
Mafia


18. Jonny

Arno Allan Penzias 
Villagers


19. Ben Kenobi

Kenneth G. Wilson

Mafia


20. Darkcloud

Sheldon Lee Glashow
 
Villagers


21. Vlad Antlerkov

John Robert Schrieffer
Alive


22. duke o' york

Leon Neil Cooper

R1-Villagers


23. Tuberski

Murray Gell-Mann

Mafia


24. paramir

Brian David Josephson

Villagers

I have no idea, but with only 7 of us living, I don't think we can afford to make any more random votes, someone needs to reason this one out.

/me