Nobel Prize

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.…

19 October 1988 has decided to award the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Leon Lederman, Batavia, Illinois, USA, Melvin Schwartz, Mountain view, California, USA and Jack Steinberger, Geneva, Switzerland, for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. This year’s…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Dr. Georg Bednorz and Professor Dr. Alex Müller by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences “for their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in…

  description of the weak force was incomplete. According to his theory the probability for a reaction at very high energies could exceed 1, which is impossible. It was therefore important to study the weak force at high energies, but the problem was how! It was possible to produce beams of particles with high energy,…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 jointly to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance” Albert Fert Professor, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. Born in 1938. Photo: © CNRS Photolibrary – C. Lebedinsky Peter Grünberg…