Nobel Prize

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.…

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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…

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