Physics
What do they look like? ……..
Photo: L. Falk Plastic, rubber, plexiglas, gels and textile fibres such as nylon and polyester are all synthetic materials made of polymer molecules. A Frisbee is a mixture of crystalline (ordered) and amorphous (disordered) polymer structures. This makes the material both strong and flexible. Each polymer molecule…
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Daniel C. Tsui – Biographical
Biographical
I tend to partition my life into three compartments: childhood years in a remote village in the province of Henan in central China, schooling years in Hong Kong, and the years since I came to attend college in the United States. The only thread connecting them is the kindness, generosity and friendship from the people…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Mats Jonson of the , December 10, 2003. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Mats Jonson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is all about…
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Svenska Supraledning Rose, J. (1996). “Universum i en droppe”, Forskning och Framsteg nr 8/96, s. 42–43. “Kryofysik”, Svenska Fysikersamfundets årsbok KOSMOS 1988, band 65: 1988 (flera artiklar om supraledning och supravätskor). English The Laureates Alexei A. Abrikosov, Argonne National Laboratory , P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences , University of Illinois at…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1991
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Collège de France, Paris 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 polymers.…
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