Physics
Daniel C. Tsui – Biographical
Biographical
I tend to partition my life into three compartments: childhood years in a remote village in the province of Henan in central China, schooling years in Hong Kong, and the years since I came to attend college in the United States. The only thread connecting them is the kindness, generosity and friendship from the people…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Mats Jonson of the , December 10, 2003. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Mats Jonson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is all about…
moreThe importance of order
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…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1991
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.…
moreAnthony J. Leggett – Biographical
Biographical
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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