Physics

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…

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Press release

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…

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