Physics
Isamu Akasaki – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
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In 1964, independently of each other, Peter Higgs and François Englert put forward a theory that rescued the Standard Model from collapse. Almost half a century later, they were both in the audience at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, outside Geneva, when the discovery of a Higgs particle that finally confirmed the theory was announced to the world.
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Physics in Denmark: the first four hundred years
Article
by Abraham Pais The year 1917 marked the turbulent birth of a new era. In March the Czar of all Russians abdicated, in October the communist revolution broke out. Germany and Russia signed an armistice at Brest-Litovsk. The first United States division arrived in France and the battle of Passchendaele raged. The Balfour declaration on…
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Yoichiro Nambu – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in 1921 in Tokyo and grew up in the provincial city of Fukui. I studied physics at the Imperial University of Tokyo from 1940 to 1942, graduating at the level of M.S. Then I was drafted into an army radar laboratory. After the end of the war, in 1946, I returned to…
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