Nobel Prize

Interview transcript – Hello? – Hello, is this Frank Wilczek? – Yes. Hello. – Hello. My name is Joanna Rose. I call from Stockholm. – Oh, hello. – My congratulations to the Nobel Prize. – Thank you very much. – I’m calling from Nobelprize.org, which is…

Theodor Hänsch during the interview in Lindau. Transcript from an interview with Theodor W. Hänsch, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Theodor Hänsch, welcome. We’re here in Lindau, on Lake Constance, for the Lindau Nobel Meeting,…

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The Nobel Laureates, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory COBE, NASA Scientific articlesJ. Mather et al., 1990, Astrophys. J (Letter) 354, 37G. Smoot et al., 1992, Astrophys. J (Letter) 396, 1R.W. Wilson, 1978, The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Les Prix Nobel, 113 BooksMather, J.C. and Boslough, J. 1996: the very first light (BasicBooks 1996)Smoot, G.…

Donald Arthur Glaser was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 21, 1926, the son of William J. Glaser, a businessman, and his wife Lena. He received his early education in the public schools of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and took his B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics at the Case Institute of Technology in 1946. His…

Winning a Nobel Prize is a life-changing event. It is a turning point. In addition to many people asking about how you arrived at this point, the winner is asked to produce his biography. All this and the events related to the Nobel Prize have resulted in each one of us going back and reviewing…

John Douglas Cockcroft was born at Todmorden, England, on May 27th, 1897. His family had for several generations been cotton manufacturers. He was educated at Todmorden Secondary School and studied mathematics at Manchester University under Horace Lamb in 1914-1915. After serving in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery he returned to Manchester…

“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.”Samuel Goldwyn Several years ago I was on a trekking trip in the Jordanian desert with a large group of Brits. We were camping and, as usual, there was not much to do in the evenings, so we filled the hours by sitting around…

Adam G. Riess did not submit an autobiography.

Brian P. Schmidt did not submit an autobiography.