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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to three scientists in the field of optics. Roy Glauber is awarded half of the Prize for his theoretical description of the behaviour of light particles. John Hall and Theodor Hänsch share the other half of the Prize for their development…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are there so many different elementary particles? This year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics have presented theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what happens far inside the tiniest building blocks of matter. Unravelling the hidden symmetries of nature Nature’s…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 10 oktober 2000 har utdelat Nobelpriset i fysik år 2000 “för arbeten som lagt grunden till den moderna informationstekniken.” Priset utdelas med ena hälften gemensamt till Zhores I. Alferov, A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, S:t Petersburg, Ryssland, och Herbert Kroemer, University of California at Santa Barbara, Kalifornien, USA, “för utvecklingen av halvledarheterostrukturer för…

Contents: Based on materials from the 1989 Nobel Poster for Physics.

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My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Both families emphasized education as the way to improve their children’s lives and both my parents managed to graduate from college. After receiving an M.A. in chemistry from Rice University, my father…

Pierre Curie was born in Paris, where his father was a general medical practitioner, on May 15, 1859. He received his early education at home before entering the Faculty of Sciences at the Sorbonne. He gained his Licenciateship in Physics in 1878 and continued as a demonstrator in the physics laboratory until 1882 when he…

Hideki Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on 23rd January, 1907, the third son of Takuji Ogawa, who later became Professor of Geology at Kyoto University. The future Laureate was brought up in Kyoto and graduated from the local university in 1929. Since that time he has been engaged on investigations in theoretical physics, particularly…

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