Nobel Prize

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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The following account of Barkla’s work is by Professor G. Granqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of When X-rays fall on any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, they cause a secondary radiation. That was discovered by Sagnac in 1897 and it has since then been studied by a long series of investigators.…

15 October 1986 has decided to award the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half to Professor. Ernst Ruska, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope and the other half, jointly to Dr Gerd Binnig and Dr…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 Contents: | | | | | | | | Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web AB.