Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hulthén, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. For the man in the street I suppose the compass needle is the most familiar magnetic instrument. But when and where the compass was first used is a much-debated question, where we grope between Chinese records from the year…

English The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics The quantum physics that controls the micro-world has a wide range of spectacular effects that do not normally occur in our ordinary macro-world. There are, however, certain situations in which quantum phenomena are visible. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for work concerning two of these…

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Presentation Speech by Professor E.G. Rudberg, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In these days 250 years have elapsed since Benjamin Franklin was born: the printer and educator, the statesman, the pioneer in the field of electricity. It was Franklin who strung a high-tension line from a thundercloud to a…

  Mobile telephones, satellite TV, the Net, the globalised economy and politics: the world is changing. Knowledge of electrons is a key to the events and the processes of our time. Soon the circuits used will be so small that quantum fluids with different types of quasi-particles may become forces to be reckoned with in…

I was born in Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.A. on May 5, 1921. My father had come from Europe a decade earlier. He left his home in Riga to study electrical engineering at Darmstadt, but arrived too late for the beginning of the term. Therefore, he went on to visit his brother in New York,…

I was born on Saturday June 27, 1931, in a town called Waalwijk in the south of the Netherlands. My father was the head of the local primary school. One brother and two sisters of my father were primary school teachers as well, and in my family learning was held in high regard. My mother…

19 October 1981 has decided to award the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half jointly to Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen, Harvard University, USA, and Professor Arthur L. Schawlow, Stanford University, USA, for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy, and by the other half to Professor Kai M. Siegbahn, Uppsala University, Sweden, for…

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1933 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prizes for Physics are dedicated to the new atomic physics. The prizes, which the Academy of Sciences has at its disposal, have namely been awarded…

Eugene Paul Wigner, born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 17, 1902, naturalized a citizen of the United States on January 8, 1937, has been since 1938 Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton University – he retired in 1971. His formal education was acquired in Europe; he obtained the Dr. Ing. degree at…