Physics
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hulthén, Chairman of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The notion of matter as something built up of very tiny and indivisible atoms is a heritage from classical times. Since, however, experimental research in our days has shown that the atoms in their turn are complicated structures,…
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Press release
Press release
16 October 1991 has decided to award the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, College de France, Paris, France 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 polymer. Order and disorder in…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Mats Jonson of the , December 10, 1998. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Mats Jonson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, For a long time, man has known how…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
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…
morePierre-Gilles de Gennes – Biographical
Biographical
P. G. de Gennes was born in Paris, France, in 1932. He majored from the École Normale in 1955. From 1955 to 1959, he was a research engineer at the Atomic Energy Center (Saclay), working mainly on neutron scattering and magnetism, with advice from A. Herpin, A. Abragam and J. Friedel (PhD 1957). During 1959…
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