Nobel Prize

Family BackgroundThe Kao family comes from a township called Zhangyan in the Jinshan district near Shanghai, China. As landowners, the family would have been considered wealthy. The sons of each generation would be well educated in the style of the times. My knowledge of the family’s genealogy goes back only to Grandfather. Grandfather Kao Hsieh…

by John N. Bahcall What makes the sun shine? How does the sun produce the vast amount of energy necessary to support life on earth? These questions challenged scientists for a hundred and fifty years, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century. Theoretical physicists battled geologists and evolutionary biologists in a heated controversy over…

By Klaus Biedermann* Prize-awarded methods Among the Nobel Prizes in Physics, two scientists have been honored for their remarkable methods to record and present images: , awarded in 1908 “for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference,” and , awarded in 1971, “for his invention and development of the holographic…

by Sven Kullander Why accelerators Particle accelerators are devices producing beams of energetic ions and electrons which are employed for many different purposes, one being ultra-precision microscopy. As is well known objects with dimensions down to the size of a living cell are investigated by optical microscopes and those down to atomic dimensions by electron…

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Prizes related to the 2008 Physics Prize In 2008, Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa received the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries concerning nature’s broken symmetry. Find out here about previous Nobel Prizes relevant to their work. Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 Gerardus ‘t Hooft and Martinus J. G. Veltman “for elucidating the…

16 October 1985 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1985 to Professor Klaus von Klitzing, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany, for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect. Summary When an electric current passes through a metal strip there is normally no difference in potential across…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 Editors: Börje Johansson, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Anna Delin, Royal Institute of Technology, Annika Moberg and Andrea Westerdahl, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustration: Typoform Print: Katarinatryck AB 2007 Copyright The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Box 50005, SE-104 05…

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