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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…

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…

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…