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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…

Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 has decided to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor David M. Lee, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, Professor Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, and Professor Robert C. Richardson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, for their discovery of superfluidity…

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Shuji Nakamura was born on May 22, 1954 in Oku, a tiny fishing village on the Pacific coast of Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands. Farming is the principle occupation in Oku. Local farmers grow yams on steps cut into steep hillsides. Shuji’s maternal grandparents owned such a farm. To get to the…

I was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on September 11, 1960, to my father Tatsuji and mother Yoshiko, and I grew up with younger brother Takashi. Hamamatsu is famous as the birthplace of Professor Kenjiro Takayanagi, a Japanese pioneer in the development of television, who succeeded in transmitting the first Katakana character “イ” by wireless…

CURRICULUM VITAE Education Mar. 52: B. Sc., Kyoto University. Mar. 64: Dr. Eng. (Electronics), Nagoya University. Employment, Academic Appointments Apr. 52–Mar. 59: Research staff, Kobe Kogyo Corporation (now Fujitsu Ltd.). Apr. 59–Mar. 64: Research Associate, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, Department of Electronics, Nagoya University. Apr. 64–Apr. 74: Head, Fundamental Research Laboratory-4, Matsushita Research Institute…

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