Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was born in Voronezh Region on July 28, 1904. His parents, Aleksei and Mariya Cerenkov, were peasants. He graduated from the Physico-Mathematical Faculty of Voronezh State University in 1928, and in 1930 he took a post as senior scientific officer in the P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics in the U.S.S.R. Academy of…

Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City on the 11th May 1918. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained his B.Sc. in 1939 and at Princeton University where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1942. He was Research Assistant at Princeton (1940-1941), Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University (1945-1950),…

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Igor Y. Tamm’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1958 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Excellenser, Mina Damer och Herrar! Å mina och mina kollegers Cerenkov och Frank vägnar önskar jag uttrycka vår djupt kända tacksamhet för den stora ära, som vederfarits oss. Besides the feeling of an immense personal happiness, mixed…

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Presentation Speech by former Councillor Th. Nordstrom, President of , on December 10, 1913 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. At its meeting on the 11th November the Royal Academy of Sciences decided to award the Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 1913 to Dr. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Professor at the University…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindgren of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel prize in physics is shared between three scientists – Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow, both from the United States, and Kai Siegbahn from Sweden – for their contributions to the development…

Swedish 5 oktober 2004 har beslutat utdela 2004 års Nobelpris i fysik “för upptäckten av asymptotisk frihet i teorin för den starka växelverkan” gemensamt till David J. GrossKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics vid University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, H. David PolitzerCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA, och Frank WilczekMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),…

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