Nobel Prize

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 jointly to Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett for “pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids”.     This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003           Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA   Landau’s pupil, Alexei Abrikosov, realised almost immediately that Ginzburg and Landau’s theory can also describe those superconductors (type II) that can coexist with strong magnetic fields. According to Abrikosov’s theory this occurs because…

Swedish 13 oktober 1998 har utdelat 1998 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University, Kalifornien, USA, Professor Horst L. Störmer, Columbia University, New York, och Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA, och Professor Daniel C. Tsui, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. De tre forskarna Nobelprisbelönas för att ha upptäckt…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Professor Horst L. Störmer and Professor Daniel C. Tsui for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.   Photo: Brigitta Hanggi, Lucent Technologies Professor Daniel C. Tsui Princeton University…

  For more than 150 years we have used electrons for practical purposes. Yet they were only discovered in 1897. Early models described electrons in a metal as a gas. In 1956 the Russian physicist (Nobel Prize 1962) explained why electrons in a metal behave like nearly independent particles. Landau provided a model which can…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Olga Botner, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén i fysik, 10 December 2011 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Allow me to start in English by citing a short poem by the Danish scientist, poet and designer Piet Hein, called Nothing is indispensable – grook to warn the…

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…

          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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