Physics
Arthur B. McDonald – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in 1943 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, a city of about 30,000 people on Cape Breton Island. My mother’s and father’s families were Scottish and French settlers who had come to Atlantic Canada in the 1700s and early 1800s. My father was a Lieutenant in the Canadian Army and left for Europe…
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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…
moreArthur B. McDonald – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Takaaki Kajita – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture