Physics
Jack S. Kilby – Biographical
Biographical
The Nobel Committee has asked me to discuss my life story, so I guess I should begin at the beginning. I was born in 1923 in Great Bend, Kansas, which got its name because the town was built at the spot where the Arkansas River bends in the middle of the state. I grew up…
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Max von Laue – Biographical
Biographical
Max Laue was born on October 9, 1879 at Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz. He was the son of Julius von Laue, an official in the German military administration, who was raised to hereditary nobility in 1913 and who was often sent to various towns, so that von Laue spent his youth in Brandenburg, Altona, Posen, Berlin…
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Pyotr Kapitsa – Biographical
Biographical
Pjotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was born in Kronstadt, near Leningrad, on the 9th July 1894, son of Leonid Petrovich Kapitsa, military engineer, and Olga Ieronimovna née Stebnitskaia, working in high education and folklore research. Kapitsa began his scientific career in A.F. Ioffe’s section of the Electromechanics Department of the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute, completing his studies in…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Dr. H.R. Törnebladh, President of on December 10, 1903 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The last decade’s record of development in the physical sciences is outstanding for the discoveries, as unexpected as they are impressive, that have been made. The Royal Academy of Sciences has been accorded the task…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor O.B. Klein, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Tsung Dao Lee and Professor Chen Ning Yang for this year is concerned with some of the fundamental physical principles, the so-called parity laws – in the first place the symmetry…
morePress release
Press release
12 October 1989 has decided to award the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions of importance for the development of atomic precision spectroscopy with one half to Professor Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other…
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