Physics

Banquet speech

Manne Siegbahn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1925 (in Swedish) Eders K. Högheter, Mina Damer, Mina Herrar! Det är förvisso ett ansvarsfullt värv, som pålagts Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, då Akademien åtagit sig uppdraget att utdela de båda Nobelprisen för Fysik och Kemi. Det tillkommer icke mig – allra minst nu – att…

more

Press release

English 9 October 2001 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and Carl E. Wieman JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, “for…

more

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…

more

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…

more

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…

more