Physics
The Nobel Prize medals in physics and chemistry
Facts
The medal of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences represents Nature in the form of a goddess resembling Isis, emerging from the clouds and holding in her arms a cornucopia. The veil which covers her cold and austere face is held up by the Genius of Science. The inscription on the medal reads: Inventas vitam…
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Arthur B. McDonald – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Takaaki Kajita – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
James Cronin – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on September 29, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, while my father, James Farley Cronin, was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He was a student of classical languages. My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. After a brief stay at a small school…
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