1995
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Mr. Östen Sjöstrand, Member of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Irish poet Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. The thatched farmhouse he grew up in was called Mossbawn – a name that has become mythical in Heaney’s poetry.…
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Poetry
Poetry
Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication For Mary Heaney I. Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove…
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Poetry
The Haw Lantern The wintry haw is burning out of season, crab of the thorn, a small light for small people, wanting no more from them but that they keep the wick of self-respect from dying out, not having to blind them with illumination. But sometimes when your breath plumes in the frost it takes…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the December 10, 1995 Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Physicists believe that all matter, for example the matter in our own bodies, consists of quarks and leptons. Quarks are heavy, and leptons are light. There are two types of quarks,…
morePressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 1995
Press release
Swedish har beslutat att utdela 1995 års Nobelpris i fysik för banbrytande experimentella insatser inom leptonfysiken med ena hälften till Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, Kalifornien, USA för upptäckten av tauonen och med andra hälften till Frederick Reines, University of California, Irvine, Kalifornien, USA för påvisandet av neutrinon. Upptäckterna av två av naturens småpartiklar…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1995
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, receives the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the tau lepton. Frederick Reines, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, receives the Nobel Prize for the detection…
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