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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:…

14 October 1987 has decided to award the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Dr Johannes Georg Bednorz and Professor Dr Karl Alexander Müller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland, for their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials. Summary This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Dr Georg…

Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Lundqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Professor Klaus von Klitzing for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect. This discovery is an example of these unexpected and surprising discoveries that…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 The electrons in the illustration are represented by small magnets as it is their magnetic qualities that give rise to giant magnetoresistance. The magnetic moment in the electrons is the result of their internal “rotation”, spin, that can point upwards or downwards. Here the electric current is divided into…

Isidor Isaac Rabi was born in Raymanov, Austria, on July 29, 1898, the son of David Rabi and Janet Teig. He was brought to the United States by his family, in 1899, and his early education was in New York City (Manhattan and Brooklyn). In 1919 he graduated Bachelor of Chemistry at Cornell University (New…

William Shockley was born in London, England, on 13th February, 1910, the son of William Hillman Shockley, a mining engineer born in Massachusetts and his wife, Mary (née Bradford) who had also been engaged in mining, being a deputy mineral surveyor in Nevada. The family returned to the United States in 1913 and William Jr.…