Physics
Illustrated information
Illustrated information
Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physics, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. Graphene – the perfect atomic lattice Graphene is a form of…
moreRoy J. Glauber – Biographical
Biographical
What is it that makes a dedicated scientist out of a kid with an everyday background? Is it the ungovernable forces that seem to shape all our lives, or is it the development of our own curiosity and tastes that tips the balance of randomness? I’ve always been puzzled by those questions and can’t claim…
moreLeon M. Lederman – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript Professor Leon Lederman, welcome to Stockholm and to this Nobel interview. You have won the Nobel Prize in 1988 and this was for your research in elementary particle physics and the last century was really a very exciting time in physics and some people maybe say that all the major…
moreHeinrich Rohrer – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript Heinrich Rohrer, welcome to Stockholm and to this interview with Nobelprize.org. You were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Ernst Ruska and Gerd Binnig for your joint work in developing microscopy. And in particular you and Gerd Binnig received the prize for your design of the scanning…
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