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Nobel Prize Talks: John C. Mather Released 2014-05-22 Is there life on Mars? NASA researcher John Mather, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 for mapping the traces of the first light emitted by the young universe, believes that where there’s water, there’s likely to be life. And he thinks that the chances of finding…

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Nobel Prize Talks: George F. Smoot Released 2014-05-09 How big is the universe? And how do you stay grounded when working in the mind-bending field of cosmology? These are questions for George Smoot, awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explorations of the remnants of the first light emitted by the expanding universe.…

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Svenska Laser Lasersidan, Passagen English The Laureates Roy J. Glauber, Harvard University John L. Hall, JILA, University of Colorado , Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik Quantum Optics and Laser Spectroscopy Visual Quantum Mechanics (animations), Kansas State University On the matter of the meter, Physics Today Online Quantum optics (links), Macquarie University, Australia Hyper physics (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html, see “Light…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005       Further reading Information on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 ● ● ● The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, R. Feynman, Princeton Univ. Press 1985 ● Concepts of Quantum Optics, P. L. Knight and L. Allen, Pergamon Press 1983 ● Introduction to Quantum Optics,…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003     Further reading Hyperphysics (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html)   Contents: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |   Web Adapted Version of the Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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