Nobel Prize

I was born in Copenhagen on June 19, 1922, as the fourth son of and Margrethe Bohr (née Nørlund). During my early childhood, my parents lived at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (now the Niels Bohr Institute), and the remarkable generation of scientists who came to join my father in his work became for us…

Karl Ferdinand Braun was born on June 6, 1850 at Fulda, where he was educated at the local “Gymnasium” (grammar school). He studied at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin and graduated in 1872 with a paper on the oscillations of elastic strings. He worked as assistant to Professor Quincke at Würzburg University and in…

Walther Bothe was born on January 8, 1891, at Oranienburg, near Berlin. From 1908 until 1912 he studied physics at the University of Berlin, where he was a pupil of , obtaining his doctorate just before the outbreak of the 1914-1918 war. From 1913 until 1930 he worked at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in the same…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Tord Claeson of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Tord Claeson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Information technology (IT) influences our lives at many levels.…

English The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000″for basic work on information and communication technology” The prize is being awarded with one half jointly toZhores I. Alferov, A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, andHerbert Kroemer, University of California at Santa Barbara, California, USA,”for developing semiconductor heterostructures…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005             Quantum mechanics – what is it? Quantum mechanics describes the laws and phenomena in the microcosmos, among tiny particles and incredibly weak light, photons. These laws do not always agree with our common sense, nor do they fit in with our everyday…

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I was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 9, 1926, the second of three children of Goodman Mottelson and Georgia Mottelson (née Blum). My father held a university degree in engineering. My childhood home was a place where scientific, political and moral issues were freely and vigorously discussed. I attended primary school and high school…