Physics
Ernest T.S. Walton – Biographical
Biographical
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was born at Dungarvan, County Waterford on the south coast of Ireland on October 6th, 1903, the son of a Methodist Minister from County Tipperary. The ministry demanded that his father move from place to place every few years, and he attended day schools in Banbridge (County Down) and Cookstown (County…
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Owen Chamberlain – Biographical
Biographical
Owen Chamberlain was born in San Francisco on July 10, 1920. His father was W. Edward Chamberlain, a prominent radiologist with an interest in physics. His mother’s maiden name was Genevieve Lucinda Owen. He obtained his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College in 1941. He entered graduate school in physics at the University of California, but…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
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…
moreNobelpriset i fysik 2003 – Populärvetenskaplig information
Popular information
Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 7 oktober 2003 Den kvantfysik som styr mikrovärlden uppvisar en hel rad spektakulära effekter som normalt inte förekommer i vår vanliga makrovärld. Det finns dock vissa situationer där kvantfenomen blir synliga. Årets Nobelpris i fysik belönar arbeten rörande två av dessa: supraledning och suprafluiditet. Alexei Abrikosov och Vitaly Ginzburg har utvecklat teorier…
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