Physics
Pressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2011
Press release
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.…
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Illustrated information
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…
moreGerardus ‘t Hooft – Biographical
Biographical
“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…
morePressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2013
Press release
Swedish 8 oktober 2013 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2013 till François Englert Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bryssel, Belgien och Peter W. Higgs Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bryssel, Belgien University of Edinburgh, Storbritannien ”för den teoretiska upptäckten av en mekanism som bidrar till förståelsen av massans ursprung hos subatomära partiklar, och som nyligen, genom…
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Award ceremony speech
Swedish Presentationstal av professor Björn Jonson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 December 2012 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Vid magisterpromotionen i Lund 1820 sade Esaias Tegnér i sin epilog Ty detta…
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Popular information
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed ground-breaking methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature, in ways that were previously thought unattainable. Particle control in a quantum world Haroche and Wineland have opened the door to a new era of…
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