Nobel Prize

A presentation of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1997, based on material from the 1997 Physics Nobel poster from the Royal Academy of Sciences. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly toSteven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillipsfor their developments…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992 The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1992 jointly to Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism. Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft and Professor Emeritus Martinus J.G. Veltman for “elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.” A theory to reckon with The structure of particle physics is described using…

A presentation of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1988, based on material from the 1988 Physics Nobel poster from the Royal Academy of Sciences. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Leon M. LedermanFermi National Accelerator Laboratory,Batavia, Illinois, USA Melvin SchwartzDigital Pathways Inc.,Mountain View, California, USA Jack…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”. Mankind wants more powerful medicines, the electronics industry is…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physics, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication” and the other half…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physics, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. Graphene – the perfect atomic lattice Graphene is a form of…

  Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 to Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics” and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the…

Economic Sciences Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2010 to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides “for their analysis of markets…

  Economic Sciences Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 with one half to Elinor Ostrom “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the…