Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Professor Carlo Rubbia and Dr. Simon van der Meer. According to the decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences the prize is given…

I was born in 1925, in The Hague, the Netherlands, as the third child of Pieter van der Meer and Jetske Groeneveld, both of Frisian origin. I had three sisters. My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher’s family. Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized;…

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Enrico Fermi was born in Rome on 29th September, 1901, the son of Alberto Fermi, a Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Communications, and Ida de Gattis. He attended a local grammar school, and his early aptitude for mathematics and physics was recognized and encouraged by his father’s colleagues, among them A. Amidei. In 1918,…

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Swedish 4 oktober 2011 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2011 med ena hälften till Saul Perlmutter The Supernova Cosmology Project Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA och med andra hälften gemensamt till Brian P. Schmidt The High-z Supernova Search Team Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia och Adam G.…

  Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 to Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics” and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the…

“A man who knows everything”. This, reportedly, was my reply to a school teacher asking me what I’d like to become when I grow up. I was eight years old, or thereabouts, and what I wanted to say was “professor”, but, still not knowing everything, I had forgotten that word. And what I really meant…