Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor O.B. Klein, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Tsung Dao Lee and Professor Chen Ning Yang for this year is concerned with some of the fundamental physical principles, the so-called parity laws – in the first place the symmetry…

12 October 1989 has decided to award the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions of importance for the development of atomic precision spectroscopy with one half to Professor Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other…

Physics has the ambition to discover the laws of nature. The predictions of these laws must be checked by accurate experiments. Even very small deviations are of great principal importance and require the highest possible precision in the measurements. The laws of physics are directly or indirectly based on quantities such as mass, length, time…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005             Are the fundamental constants really constant? Thanks to highly stabilised laser systems we can now make measurements with very great accuracy. For example, Hall has been able to verify what the theory of relativity predicts – that light has the same speed…

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The Nobel Committee has asked me to discuss my life story, so I guess I should begin at the beginning. I was born in 1923 in Great Bend, Kansas, which got its name because the town was built at the spot where the Arkansas River bends in the middle of the state. I grew up…

Max Laue was born on October 9, 1879 at Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz. He was the son of Julius von Laue, an official in the German military administration, who was raised to hereditary nobility in 1913 and who was often sent to various towns, so that von Laue spent his youth in Brandenburg, Altona, Posen, Berlin…

Pjotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was born in Kronstadt, near Leningrad, on the 9th July 1894, son of Leonid Petrovich Kapitsa, military engineer, and Olga Ieronimovna née Stebnitskaia, working in high education and folklore research. Kapitsa began his scientific career in A.F. Ioffe’s section of the Electromechanics Department of the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute, completing his studies in…

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