Nobel Prize

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…

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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellences, Ladies and Gentleman. It is a great honour for François Englert and me to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics and we wish to express our sincere gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. It is a matter of great…

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English Presentation Speech by Professor Professor Lars Brink, Member of the ; Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2013 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and…

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Lars Brink, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 December 2013 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. “Världen är så stor så stor … Större än du nånsin tror …”…