Physics
Cecil Powell – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
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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Albert Fert – Biographical
Biographical
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…
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Douglas D. Osheroff – Biographical
Biographical
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…
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