Physics
Jack Steinberger – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Bad Kissingen (Franconia) in 1921. At that time my father, Ludwig, was 45 years old. He was one of twelve children of a rural ‘Viehhändler’ (small-time cattle dealer). Since the age of eighteen he had been cantor and religious teacher for the little Jewish community, a job he still held when…
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Charles Edouard Guillaume – Biographical
Biographical
Charles-Edouard Guillaume was born at Fleurier, in the Swiss-Jura, on February 15, 1861. His grandfather had left France for political reasons during the Revolution and established a watchmaking business in London. The business was carried on by his three sons but Charles’ father, Édouard, eventually returned to settle in Fleurier. Guillaume received his early education…
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Press release
Press release
14 October 1980 has decided to award the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor James W. Cronin, University of Chicago, USA and Professor Val L. Fitch, Princeton University, USA, for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons. Symmetries play a great role in many sciences and also…
morePressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2007
Press release
Swedish 9 oktober 2007 har beslutat utdela 2007 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, Frankrike, och Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Tyskland, “för upptäckten av jättemagnetoresistans”. Nanoteknik gav känsligt läshuvud för kompakta hårddiskar Årets fysikpris belönar den teknik som används för att läsa data från hårddiskar.…
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