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The Nobel Laureates, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California,Berkeley, CA, USA, Australian National University,Weston Creek, Australia, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute,Baltimore, MD, USA Popular science articlesPerlmutter, S. (2003) Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe, Physics Today, vol. 56,no. 4.Krauss, L.M., Turner, M.S. (2004) A Cosmic Conundrum, Scientific American,www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-cosmic-conundrumRiess, A.G., Turner,…
morePeter Higgs – Other resources
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Links to other sites Video ‘Q&A with Professor Peter Higgs’ from London Science Museum ‘The Higgs Field, explained – Don Lincoln’ from TED Talks
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Davis and Koshiba found that the number of neutrinos detected from the sun was smaller than expected. It was as if they vanished en route! Their experiments were optimised for the detection of one of the three possible kinds of…
moreFrederick Reines – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Paterson, New Jersey on March 16, 1918, the youngest of four children. My parents, Israel and Gussie (Cohen), had met and married in New York City after emigrating to the United States from the same small town in Russia. A paternal relative in Russia, the Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines (1839-1915), was…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Elementary particle physics which is now so vigorous was still in its infancy when Murray Gell-Mann in 1953 published the first of the papers which have been honoured with this years Nobel Prize in physics. The physicists were,…
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