Physics
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Dr. H.R. Törnebladh, President of on December 10, 1903 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The last decade’s record of development in the physical sciences is outstanding for the discoveries, as unexpected as they are impressive, that have been made. The Royal Academy of Sciences has been accorded the task…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor K.B. Hasselberg, member of , on December 10, 1907 The Royal Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics to Professor Albert A. Michelson of Chicago, for his optical precision instruments and the research which he has carried out with their help in the fields of…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by the former Rector General of National Antiquities H. Hildebrand, President of , on December 10, 1909 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Research in physics has provided us with many surprises. Discoveries which at first seemed to have but theoretical interest have often led to inventions of the greatest importance…
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The following account of von Laue’s work is by Professor G. Granqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of Seldom indeed can a discovery in the field of physics have given rise to such intensive research work as did that of in 1896, when he proved the existence of a new form of rays…
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