2017
Jacques Dubochet – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
Artist: Berndt Wennström Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi, monogram: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom
moreRainer Weiss – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
LIGO and Gravitational Waves I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgICZnAo04A Rainer Weiss delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Nils Mårtensson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics. Pdf 5 MB
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Popular information
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LIGO is no ordinary telescope for detecting light and other electromagnetic radiation from space. It is an instrument for listening to space’s gravitational waves; even if gravitational waves are tremors in spacetime itself, and not sound waves, their frequency is equivalent to those we can hear with our human ears.
moreKip S. Thorne – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
Artist: Richard Vakil Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi, monogram: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom
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