Physics

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1923 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics to Doctor Robert Andrews Millikan for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by professor Hans Wilhelmsson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The subject of the Nobel Prize in Physics this year is the science of Astrophysics, the Physics of the stars and galactic systems. Problems concerning our Universe on a large scale, its constitution and…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003           Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA   Landau’s pupil, Alexei Abrikosov, realised almost immediately that Ginzburg and Landau’s theory can also describe those superconductors (type II) that can coexist with strong magnetic fields. According to Abrikosov’s theory this occurs because…

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Press release

13 October 1993 has decided to award the Nobel Prize Physics for 1993 jointly to Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor, Jr, both of Princeton University, New Jersey, USA for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation Gravity investigated with…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has had a great impact on gravitational…

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