Physics
Award ceremony speech
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 Bertram Brockhouse and Clifford Shull for their pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for the study of liquid and solid matter.…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1994
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter. Shull made use of elastic scattering i.e. of neutrons which change direction without losing energy when they collide with atoms. Because of the wave nature…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
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…
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Press release
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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