Nobel Prize

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 7 oktober 2003 Den kvantfysik som styr mikrovärlden uppvisar en hel rad spektakulära effekter som normalt inte förekommer i vår vanliga makrovärld. Det finns dock vissa situationer där kvantfenomen blir synliga. Årets Nobelpris i fysik belönar arbeten rörande två av dessa: supraledning och suprafluiditet. Alexei Abrikosov och Vitaly Ginzburg har utvecklat teorier…

Swedish 13 oktober 1998 har utdelat 1998 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University, Kalifornien, USA, Professor Horst L. Störmer, Columbia University, New York, och Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA, och Professor Daniel C. Tsui, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. De tre forskarna Nobelprisbelönas för att ha upptäckt…

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Victor Franz Hess was born on the 24th of June, 1883, in Waldstein Castle, near Peggau in Steiermark, Austria. His father, Vinzens Hess, was a forester in Prince Öttingen-Wallerstein’s service and his mother was Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt. He received his entire education in Graz: Gymnasium (1893-1901), and afterwards Graz University (1901-1905), where he took…

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Presentation Speech by Professor A.E. Lindh, member of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In awarding this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor C.F. Powell of Bristol, the Swedish Academy of Sciences cited his development of the photographic method for the study of nuclear processes and his discoveries concerning the mesons. The…

18 October 1982 NEW THEORY FOR PHASE TRANSITIONS AWARDED has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1982 to Professor Kenneth G. Wilson, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions. In daily life and from classical physics we know that matter can exist in different…

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