Physics

Banquet speech

C. T. R. Wilson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1927 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish I could adequately express my gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science for the great honour they have conferred upon me. I feel that I owe what success I have achieved in…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1936   Unsolved Problems in Physics: Tasks for the Immediate Future in Cosmic Ray Studies From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved…

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