Physics

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 18 October 1976 has decided to award the 1976 Nobel Prize for physics to be shared equally between Professor Burton Richter, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA, and Professor Samuel C.C. Ting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind. Shared…

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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 Professor I. Waller, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Since discovery of the atomic nucleus fifty years ago, one of the most fundamental problems in physics has been to investigate how it is constituted. The ideas on this question could be firmly founded when, shortly after 1930,…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by professor Sven Johansson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the end of the 1940’s, nuclear physics had advanced to a stage where a more detailed picture of the structure of the atomic nucleus was beginning to emerge and it was becoming possible…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the . Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, The air that we breathe not only contains oxygen and nitrogen, but also small quantities of other gases. One of these – often mentioned in connection with the global greenhouse effect – is…

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French 10 Octobre 2000 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Physique de l’année 2000 à des chercheurs et inventeurs dont les travaux ont jeté les bases des nouvelles technologies de l’information, en particulier par leur invention des transistors rapides, des diodes laser et des circuits intégrés (puces). Le prix est attribué pour moitié conjointement…

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