Physics
Zhores I. Alferov – Biographical
Biographical
Life goes on surprisingly fast. It seems to happen a short time ago that I would attend anniversary celebrations in honour of noted physicists, my teachers who to my mind looked quite old. But at the present time, I myself have recently marked the 70th birthday. My parents, Ivan Karpovich, and Anna Vladimirovna, had been…
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Toshihide Maskawa – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in 1940 as the second child in a family living in Nagoya, a city with a population of around a million inhabitants. My older sister died of tuberculosis before entering elementary school and so I was an only child until my second sister, who is seven years younger than me, was born…
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Credits and References for the 1989 Physics Nobel Poster
Editors: Professor Ingmar Bergström, Manne Siegbahn Institute of Physics, Frescativägen 24, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden Dr Torbjörn Olsson, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden Illustrator: Karin Feltzin, Stockholm Printed by: Tryckindustri 1989. Copyright © , Information Department, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel. +46-8-673 95 00, Fax +46-8-15 56…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 Guaranteed secure cryptography One practical application of quantum optics is the possibility to exchange cryptographic keys without fear of their being broken – which is the bottleneck of all cryptography. These keys are used to encipher a message between a transmitter and…
moreHerbert Kroemer – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on August 25, 1928 in Weimar, Germany. My father was a civil servant working for the city administration of my home town; my mother was a classical German “Hausfrau.” Both came from simple skilled-craftsmen families. Neither had a high-school education, but there was never any doubt that they wanted to have their…
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