Physics
Award ceremony speech
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…
moreWolfgang Ketterle – Biographical
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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Isamu Akasaki – Other resources
Other resources
Links to other sites Articles Zheludev, N. (2007) The life and times of the LED – a 100-year history, Nature photonics, vol. 1, April Schubert, E. F. and Kyu Kim, J. (2005) Solid-State Light Sources Getting Smart, Science, 308, 1274 Savage, N. (2000) LEDs light the future, Technology Review, vol. 103, no 5, p. 38–44,…
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