Nobel Prize

I was born in Fowey, Cornwall, on 11 May 1924, the youngest of three sons and my father was a banker. I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats. I was educated at King’s College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in…

I was born on April 6, 1949 in a regional hospital in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Having the umbilical cord wrapped twice tightly around my neck, my parents’ fear for the mental health of their first-born son subsided only gradually. My forefathers had been farmers, inn-keepers, blacksmiths, carpenters and shop keepers in the region.…

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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…

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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