Physics
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
English Presentation Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2015 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is all about neutrinos, perhaps the most puzzling particles in the universe. Like ghosts, they pass through…
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Award ceremony speech
Swedish Presentationstal av professor Olga Botner, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 december 2015 Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Ärade Pristagare. Mina Damer och Herrar. Årets Nobelpris i fysik handlar om neutriner, universums kanske märkligaste partiklar. Likt spöken tränger de genom de tjockaste väggar – ja, till och med rakt genom hela…
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by John N. Bahcall The three years 2001 to 2003 were the golden years of solar neutrino research. In this period, scientists solved a mystery with which they had been struggling for four decades. The solution turned out to be important for both physics and for astronomy. In this article, I tell the story of…
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