Interview: Hot link to a Nobel prize

Only a small fraction of the world’s population have the chance to study physics, let alone win a Nobel prize. But Gerard’t Hooft wants to change all that. Everyone, he says, should have access to the kind of information that started him on his career as a Nobel prize-winning theoretical physicist. Now he is building a website with this goal in mind. All you need to follow in his footsteps is an internet connection, a budding intellect and the desire to study hard. Amanda Gefter met the physicist whose website is for those “fully determined to earn their own…