= Losing the Nobel Prize =
=== Brian Keating, 2018 . Beaverton . 523.18 KEA ===
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Brian Keating co-invented the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BICEP_and_Keck_Array | BICEP ]] (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope at Caltech in 2002, deployed at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2005.  98 detectors, 50 at 100 GHz and 48 at 150 GHz, sensitive to the polarization of the Cosmic Ray Background.

BICEP2 detected gravitational-wave B-modes with an SNR of 5, implying lower than 1:3e6 odds of statistical fluke.

[[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA | March 16 2014 video with Andrei Linde ]]

Page 252:  Sn1a dimmer than expected, and astronomers like Adam Riess suspected dust, then subtracted it out.  BICEP2 results mimic dust.