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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…

Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Lundqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The development in physics is on the whole characterized by a close interaction between experiment and theory. New experimental discoveries lead often rapidly to the development of theoretical ideas and methods that predict new…

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Joseph H. Taylor Jr and Russell A. Hulse for their discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.   Two stars for general relativity On 2 July 1974…

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I was born November 28, 1950 in New York City, the son of Alan and Betty Joan Hulse. My parents tell me that I quickly showed an unusual level of curiosity about the world around me as a child, and that this transformed itself into an interest in science at a very early age. For…