Nobel Prize

The 15 meter Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey was built in 1959 for pioneering work in communication satellites for the NASA ECHO I. In 1964, radio astronomers Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation with it, for which they were awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize…

Sheldon Glashow (right) shaking hands with co-recipient Steven Weinberg after the news of their Nobel Prize, October 1979. Sheldon Glashow at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 2017.

Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from Konserthuset Stockholm (the Stockholm Concert Hall) in Sweden on 10 December 2022.

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Watch a video clip of the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics, Anton Zeilinger, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2022.    

Watch a video clip of the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics, John Clauser, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2022.

Watch a video clip of the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics, Alain Aspect, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2022.

Alain Aspect’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2022. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen: On behalf of Dr John Clauser, Prof Anton Zeilinger and myself, we wish to thank The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for the invaluable honour of this prize. That…