Nobel Prize

English 10 October 2000 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000 to scientists and inventors whose work has laid the foundation of modern information technology, IT, particularly through their invention of rapid transistors, laser diodes, and integrated circuits (chips). The prize is being awarded with one half jointly to Zhores I.…

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for basic work on information and communication technology. The prize is being awarded with one half jointly to Zhores I. Alferov, Russia, and Herbert Kroemer, USA, for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and optoelectronics and one half to Jack. S. Kilby,…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005       Credits Editors: Sune Svanberg, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Stig Stenholm, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Björn Jacobsson, KTH, Jonas Förare, Eva Krutmeijer and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Typoform Printing: Katarinatryck AB 2005  …

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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…

Artist: Nils G Stenqvist Calligrapher: Annika Rücker

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