Physics

Award ceremony speech

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…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor A.E. Lindh, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The earliest known attempts to attain high pressures and to study various properties of matter under the influence of these pressures date from the beginning and middle of the 17th century. The experiments, which were carried out by extremely…

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