Nobel Prize

Cecil Powell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 Ladies and Gentlemen, Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them. How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious…

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I was born in March 1938 in the small town of Carcassonne in the south of France. Later, and until I was two years old, I lived in Toulouse, another city in Southern France, where my parents were high school teachers, my father in physics and my mother in economics. But war loomed on the…

Ethnically, I come from a mixed family. My father was the son of Jewish immigrants who left Russia shortly after the turn of the century, and my mother was the daughter of a Lutheran minister whose parents were from what is now Slovakia. Mostly, however, I grew up in a medical family. My father’s father…

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800’s. One of my great grandfathers had…

My father, Harry Warren Anderson, was a professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois in Urbana, where I was brought up from 1923 to 1940. Although raised on the farm – my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer – my father and his brother both became professors. My mother’s father was…

  Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1933 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prizes for Physics are dedicated to the new atomic physics. The prizes, which the Academy of Sciences has at its disposal, have namely been…

Swedish 7 oktober 2008 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2008 med ena hälften till Yoichiro NambuEnrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA “för upptäckten av mekanismen för spontant symmetribrott inom den subatomära fysiken” och med den andra hälften gemensamt till Makoto Kobayashi High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan och Toshihide MaskawaYukawa…