Just posted on the msnbc.com website:
"SANTA MARIA, Calif. - A Nobel Prize-winning physicist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for killing a man and injuring seven other people while going more than 100 mph in his sports car.
John Robert Schrieffer, 74, a Florida State University professor who taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara until 1991, pleaded no contest July 25 to vehicular manslaughter for crashing into a van last year.
Schrieffer had nine previous speeding tickets and was driving with a suspended license at the time. His attorney said the scientist fell asleep at the wheel of his Mercedes-Benz."
You know, my Mercedes is boring, but it's never put me to sleep!
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wow a 74 yr old drivng 100+
i havn't seen a senior go above 55 in this city lol
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Quote: | ....who taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara... | 
Go Gauchos!!
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Schriefer shared the Physics Nobel Prize in 1972 with Bardeen and Cooper for the so called BCS theory of superconductivity. If this is one in the same person and the report is true.
I guess it takes all kinds. So many speeding tickets and driving without a license? What was he thinking?
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It was a quantum physics experiment gone bad. He was trying to prove that more than one object (his car) and the people he hit could safely occupy the same place at the same time. Sadly, it didn't turn out that way.
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His flux capacitor must have failed
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