Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, May 2, 1903 Light Radiation in a Magnetic Field As Professor Lorentz told you last December, immediately after hearing of the great and very honourable distinction awarded to us, we set to work to see how best to co-ordinate our two lectures. To my great regret I was unable to be present here…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1902 The Theory of Electrons and the Propagation of Light When Professor Zeeman and I received the news of the great honour of the high distinction awarded to us, we immediately began to consider how we could best divide our roles with respect to our addresses. Professor Zeeman was first to…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, June 2, 1920 The Genesis and Present State of Development of the Quantum Theory If I take it correctly that the duty imposed upon me today is to give a public lecture on my writings, then I believe that this task, the importance of which I am well aware through the gratitude felt…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture The Coincidence Method Before embarking on the subject of my lecture, permit me to devote a few words to the man to whom, apart from my teacher, , I owe so much, and who died ten years ago after a long period of painful suffering. In 1912 Hans Geiger was appointed Director of…

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