Physics
Burton Richter – Photo gallery
Photo gallery
SLAC’s Burton Richter and MIT’s Samuel Ting at a SLAC symposium in 1984, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the J/psi discovery. On 11 November, 1974, two research teams announced they had independently of each other discovered a new subatomic particle, J/psi. While the teams performed their experiments, the J/psi popped up as a bump in…
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Pierre Curie – Nobel Prize diploma
Nobel diploma
Marie Curie – Nobel Prize diploma
Nobel diploma
Michel H. Devoret – Prize presentation
Prize presentation
Video from the award ceremony Watch a video clip of Michel H. Devoret receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2025.
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Prize presentation
Award ceremony video Watch a video clip of John Clarke receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2025.
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Prize presentation
Video from the award ceremony Watch a video clip of John M. Martinis receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2025.
moreTranscript from an interview with Geoffrey Hinton
Interview
Interview with the 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you first learn about your Nobel Prize? Geoffrey Hinton: I was more or less asleep in a hotel room in California, and I had by phone upside down on the bedside table with the…
moreTranscript from an interview with John J. Hopfield
Interview
Interview with the 2024 physics laureate John J. Hopfield, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How big a role did physics play in your childhood? John J. Hopfield: I don’t know if you have children, but young children learn what their parents do. Parents do something highly visible, a fireman…
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