Physics
Marie Curie – Biographical
Biographical
Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
The following account of Lawrence’s work is by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of In 1919 discovered that nitrogen can be brought to emit protons by bombardment with alpha particles, according to the nuclearreaction equation: This discovery meant the initiation of a new era in natural sciences. However, as long…
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Other resources
Owen Willans Richardson – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Owen Willans Richardson – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Owen Willans Richardson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1929 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I yield to no man in my admiration of the Swedish race. A race which has produced such names as those of Linnaeus, Scheele, Berzelius, Ångstrom and Rydberg, to mention a few…
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