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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…

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…

          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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I was born in Camberwell, South London, on the 26th of March, 1938. I am told I only made it into the world on the date in question by seven minutes, thereby exhibiting at this early stage the tendency to procrastination which I fear has characterized much of my subsequent career. Not a great deal…

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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…