Physics

Banquet speech

Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Colleagues and Friends: On behalf of my co-recipients, Professor Isamu Akasaki and Professor Hiroshi Amano, I would like to thank the Members of the Nobel Prize selection committee, and members of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science for honouring our invention of the efficient blue-light…

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Interview

Interview, December 2013 Interview with 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics Peter Higgs, 6 December 2013. Peter Higgs’ work in simple terms. Peter Higgs explains the standard model. Peter Higgs on if he realized he had a breakthrough. Peter Higgs on his scientific career. Peter Higgs on how he heard of being…

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Press release

English 5 October 2010 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim University of Manchester, UK and Konstantin Novoselov University of Manchester, UK “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene” Graphene – the perfect atomic lattice A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind…

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