Physics
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Prof. H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1936 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The year 1895 is a turning-point in the history of physics: Röntgen discovered the rays that were to be called after him, and this was rapidly followed by…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 Two types of superconductors Type-I superconductors are characterised by a total so-called Meissner effect. This means that the superconductor completely expels a magnetic field. If the magnetic field becomes too strong, the superconductive property disappears abruptly. But there are other superconductors, often alloys,…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Dr. Å.G. Ekstrand, President of , on June 1, 1920 Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1919 to Dr. Johannes Stark, professor in the University of Greifswald, for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and of the…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 Contents: | | | | | | | | | | | Web Adapted Version of the Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
morePercy W. Bridgman – Biographical
Biographical
Percy Williams Bridgman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 21st, 1882. He received his early education in public schools in the nearby city of Newton until 1900 when he entered Harvard University. He graduated A.B. in 1904, A.M. in 1905 and was awarded his Ph.D. (Physics) in 1908 when he joined the Faculty of…
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