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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.

Wilhelm Wien was born on January 13, 1864 at Fischhausen, in East Prussia. He was the son of the landowner Carl Wien, and seemed destined for the life of a gentleman farmer, but an economic crisis and his own secret sense of vocation led him to University studies. When in 1866 his parents moved to…

  Born 28th June 1943 in Schroda (Posen), German nationality.   February 1962 Abitur in Quakenbruck.   April 1962 to March 1969 Technical University Braunschweig Diploma in Physics. Title of diploma work: “Lifetime Measurements on InSb” (Prof. F. R. Keßler).   May 1969 to Nov. 1980 University Würzburg (Prof. Dr. G. Landwehr) Thesis work about:…

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