Nobel Prize

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.…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2011 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Allow me to start in English by citing a short poem by the Danish scientist, poet and designer Piet Hein, called Nothing is indispensable – grook…

French le 7 octobre 2003 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Physique pour l’année 2003, «pour des travaux pionniers dans le domaine théorique des supraconducteurs et des suprafluides» collectivement à Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, États-Unis, Vitaly L. Ginzburg Institut de Physique P.N. Lebedev, Moscou, Russie, et Anthony J. Leggett University…

Carl David Anderson, who was born of Swedish parents – his father was Carl David Anderson and his mother Emma Adolfina Ajaxson – in New York City (USA) on 3rd September, 1905, has spent the bulk of his life in the United States. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1927 with a…

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was born in Norrköping, Sweden, in 1908. His parents Johannes Alfvén and Anna-Clara Romanus were both practising physicians. Hannes Alfvén studied at Uppsala University from 1926, he obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1934, in this same year he was appointed lecturer in physics at Uppsala University. In 1937…

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Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, President of , on December 10, 1912 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences believes it is acting in strict accordance with Alfred Nobel’s will in awarding the Physics Prize to Chief Engineer Gustaf Dalén in recognition of his remarkable invention of automatic…

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German 7. Oktober 2003 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2003 in Physik „für bahnbrechende Arbeiten in der Theorie über Supraleiter und Supraflüssigkeiten“ gemeinsam zu verleihen an Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, U.S.A., Vitaly L. Ginzburg P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moskau, Russland, und Anthony J. Leggett University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Professor Horst L. Störmer and Professor Daniel C. Tsui for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.   Photo: Brigitta Hanggi, Lucent Technologies Professor Daniel C. Tsui Princeton University…