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French Orhan Pamuk est né le 7 juin 1952 à Istanbul dans une famille bourgeoise, aisée et séculière. Son père était ingénieur civil comme l’oncle et le grand-père paternels. C’est le grand-père de Pamuk qui fonda la richesse familiale. Pendant sa jeunesse Pamuk projetait d’être peintre. Après avoir obtenu le diplôme de bachelier de Robert…
moreDetermining differences in temperature
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The DMR – Differential Microwave Radiometer – collected and compared microwave background radiation from different directions on the sky. These temperature differences can be visualised on a map of the heavens. Contents: | | | | | | | | Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. Contents: | | | | | | | | …
moreDetecting microwaves
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 FIRAS – Far Infrared Absolute Spectrometer – was the instrument on board COBE that registered the blackbody spectrum of the microwave background radiation. The radiation lies in the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum and has a wavelength of only a few millimeters. The…
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Press release
English 3 October 2006 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, and George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. Pictures of…
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Popular information
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 is awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot for their discovery of the basic form of the cosmic microwave background radiation as well as its small variations in different directions. The very detailed observations that the Laureates have carried out…
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Award ceremony speech
Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Carlson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, den 10 december 2006. Professor Per Carlson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Pristagare, mina damer och herrar, Blicka ut mot himlen en stjärnklar kväll och fascineras över det kosmiska skådespel som…
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