Nobel Prize

I was born in Camberwell, South London, on the 26th of March, 1938. I am told I only made it into the world on the date in question by seven minutes, thereby exhibiting at this early stage the tendency to procrastination which I fear has characterized much of my subsequent career. Not a great deal…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Johansson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Astrophysics is one of the areas in physics which has developed most rapidly during recent years. Through satellite technology it has become possible to study the different physical processes which are taking place in…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003           Vitaly L. Ginzburg P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia   Together with his colleague Lev Landau, Vitaly Ginzburg developed a phenomenological theory of superconductivity in the late 1940s. This theory proposes that those electrons that contribute to superconduction form a superfluid. The superconductor…

Presentation Speech by Professor Torsten Gustafsson, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. From the sun, there blows a wind so hot that its atoms are split into electrically-charged particles, electrons and ions. They are attracted by the earth’s magnetic field and the electrons follow the lines of force and produce…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003     Credits Editors: Professor Mats Jonson, Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers, Göteborg, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics Anders Bárány, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics Jonas Förare and Katarina Werner, Information Department, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Kjell Lundin, Explicare Printing:…

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Nils Gustaf Dalén was born at Stenstorp in Skaraborg, Sweden on November 30, 1869, the son of a farmer. After his preliminary education, he entered a School of Agriculture to study dairy farming but he was later advised by Gustaf de Laval, who recognized his natural gift for mechanics, to seek a technical education. He…