Physics
Val Fitch – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Val Fitch’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Earlier today Professor Ekspong described our research which showed a basic lack of symmetry between matter and antimatter, world and antiworld. He observed that, if from some remote stellar region an alien space craft comes to visit,…
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Edward V. Appleton – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Edward V. Appleton’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1947 Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to thank you, Professor , for the kind and generous way in which you have commended us to the distinguished gathering assembled here tonight; and I want to thank all of you…
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Nobel Prize lecture
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1997 Vos Majestés, Vos Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, C’est sous le signe de la lumière que je voudrais m’adresser à vous. Depuis l’antiquité, la lumière a toujours fasciné l’esprit humain par ses multiples aspects et son caractère mystérieux. En se manifestant, tantôt comme une succession de…
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