Nobel Prize

New York City in the period of 1922 to 1979 provided the streets, schools, entertainment, culture and ethnic diversity for many future scientists. I was born in New York on July 15, 1922 of immigrant parents. My father, Morris, operated a hand laundry and venerated learning. Brother Paul, six years older, was a tinkerer of…

Contents:     Based on materials from the 1988 Nobel Poster for Physics.

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Professor Börje Johansson, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 December 2007. Professor Börje Johansson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2007 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Årets Nobelpris i fysik handlar om magnetism och elektricitet, nämligen hur ett yttre magnetfält kan…

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I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from my father, and by the time I was 15 or 16 my interests had focused on theoretical physics. I received my undergraduate degree from Cornell in 1954, and then went for a year…

Having been born in 1932, at the peak of the great depression, I grew up in difficult times. My parents worked extraordinarily hard to give us economic stability but at the same time they managed to instill in me two qualities which became the foundation of my personal and professional life. One is an unbounded…

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Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hulthén, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. On 12th December 1901, Marconi succeeded in establishing wireless communication between the Old World and the New. The way in which the wireless waves proved to follow the contour of the earth compelled the assumption that there must be…

15 October 1979 has decided to award the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics to be shared equally between Professor Sheldon L. Glashow, Harvard University, USA, Professor Abdus Salam, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy and Imperial College, Great Britain, and Professor Steven Weinberg, Harvard University, USA, for their contributions to the theory of the unified…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Leon M. Lederman Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA Melvin Schwartz Digital Pathways Inc., Mountain View, California, USA Jack Steinberger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland   for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons…