Physics

Banquet speech

Norman F. Ramsey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Wolfgang Paul, Hans Dehmelt and myself, I wish to express our deepest thanks for the honors granted to us today. For me it is a double pleasure to share this award with two…

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Curriculum Vitae

Born 27 August 1915 in Washington, D.C.; Ph.D., Columbia University 1940; since 1947 employed at Harvard University, from 1966 as Higgins Professor of Physics. Executive Secretary of the group that established the Brookhaven National Laboratory and first Chairman of its physics division; Chairman of Universities Research Association, which planned the Fermi Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 1966-1972;…

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Curriculum Vitae

National Academy of Sciences Board on Physics and Astronomy 2101 Constitution Av., MH 456 Washington, DC20418, USA Born 9 September 1922 in Görlitz, Germany; graduate studies in Gottingen 1946-1950; post-doctoral studies Gottingen 1950-52 and Duke University, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1952-1955; Assistant Professor 1955, Associate Professor 1958 and full Professor 1961 at the University of Washington,…

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Physics was the prize area which Alfred Nobel mentioned first in his will. Below, articles on the subject are presented. History of the Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901-2000 BY ERIK B. KARLSSON The dual nature of light as reflected in the Nobel archives BY GÖSTA EKSPONG   History of the…

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