Nobel Prize

Louis Néel was born in Lyons on 22 November 1904. In 1931 he married Hélène Hourticq; they have three children, Marie Françoise, Attachée d’Administration at the Conseil d’Etat, Marguerite, married to Guély, Professeur agrégée d’histoire, and Pierre, who is a television producer. Louis Néel studied at the Ecole Normal Supérieure in Paris from 1924-1928, where…

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Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. By giving the Nobel Prize in Physics of this year to Sir John Cockcroft, Director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, and Professor Ernest Walton of Dublin University, the Swedish Academy of Sciences has rewarded a discovery which…

19 October 1983 has decided to award the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half to Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars, and by the other half to professor William A. Fowler, California, Institute…

English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University, California, USA, Professor Horst L. Störmer, Columbia University, New York and Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA, and Professor Daniel C. Tsui, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The three researchers are being awarded…

Swedish 7 oktober 2003 har beslutat att utdela 2003 års Nobelpris i fysik “för banbrytande insatser inom teorin för supraledare och supravätskor” gemensamt till Alexei A. AbrikosovArgonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA, Vitaly L. GinzburgP.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moskva, Ryssland, och Anthony J. LeggettUniversity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA. Flöde utan motstånd Årets Nobelpris i…

  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…

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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.…