Nobel Prize

19 October 1983 has decided to award the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half to Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars, and by the other half to professor William A. Fowler, California, Institute…

16 October 1991 has decided to award the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, College de France, Paris, France for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymer. Order and disorder in…

English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University, California, USA, Professor Horst L. Störmer, Columbia University, New York and Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA, and Professor Daniel C. Tsui, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The three researchers are being awarded…

Presentation Speech by professor Hans Wilhelmsson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The subject of the Nobel Prize in Physics this year is the science of Astrophysics, the Physics of the stars and galactic systems. Problems concerning our Universe on a large scale, its constitution and…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Johansson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Astrophysics is one of the areas in physics which has developed most rapidly during recent years. Through satellite technology it has become possible to study the different physical processes which are taking place in…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindgren of the December 10, 1991 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, College de France, Paris, for his investigations of liquid crystals and polymers. De Gennes has shown that mathematical…

Presentation Speech by Professor Mats Jonson of the , December 10, 1998. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Mats Jonson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, For a long time, man has known how…

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English 7 October 2003 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 “for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids” jointly to Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA, Vitaly L. Ginzburg P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia, and Anthony J. Leggett University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.…

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