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  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…

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…

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,…

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,…