Physics

Press release

French le 8 octobre 2002 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Physique pour l’année 2002, pour moitié collectivement à Raymond Davis Jr Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphie, les USA, et à Masatoshi Koshiba International Centre for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japon ”pour leurs travaux pionniers dans le domaine…

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Interview

Interview transcript Professor Bloembergen, welcome to this interview. Thank you for being here with us. Nicolaas Bloembergen: It’s a pleasure to be here. I have read in your autobiography that you must have been a child with a great desire to learn new things. Your siblings had to drag you away from…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation by the Rector General of National Antiquities, Professor O. Montelius, President of , on December 10, 1910 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Academy of Sciences has resolved to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics to the world-famous Dutch physicist, Johannes Diderik van der Waals for his studies of…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1930 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Academy of Sciences, has resolved to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1930 to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman – for his work on the scattering of…

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Biographical

I was born on October 21, 1957, in Heidelberg, a small town in Germany with a charming old city and a famous castle. My parents had come to Heidelberg after the second world war, when many people relocated within Germany searching for better economic opportunities. My mother’s parents were farmers in Silesia, which has now…

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