Physics
Pressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2012
Press release
Swedish 9 oktober 2012 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2012 till Serge Haroche Collège de France och Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Frankrike och David J. Wineland National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) och University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA “för banbrytande experimentella metoder som möjliggör mätning och styrning av enstaka kvantsystem” Partikeldressyr i…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
English Presentation Speech by Professor Björn Jonson, Member of the ; Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2012 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In his…
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Useful Links / Further Reading
Other resources
The Nobel Laureates , Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/ THALES, Université Paris-Sud Peter Grünberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Scientific review articles “Giant steps with tiny magnets” by Agnes Barthélémy and Albert Fert et al., Physics World Nov. 1994.37 “Spintronics” by Dirk Grundler, Physics World April 2002. Original scientific articles “Giant Magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr Magnetic Superlattices” by…
moreKenneth G. Wilson – Biographical
Biographical
I was born 1936 in Waltham, Massachusetts, the son of E. Bright Wilson Jr. and Emily Buckingham Wilson. My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. My grandfather on my mother’s side was a professor of mechanical…
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