Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindgren of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is shared between three scientists, Professor Norman Ramsey, Harvard University, Professor Hans Dehmelt, University of Washington, Seattle, and Professor Wolfgang Paul, University of Bonn, for “contributions of importance…

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1. Comparison of masses m(p+/m(e-) = 1 836.152 701 +37×10-6 m(CO+)/m(N2+) = 0.999 598 8876 +4xl0-10 2. Test of the validity of quantum electrodynamics — The magnetic dipole moment of the electron 1/2 g(e-) = 1.001 159 652 188 +4xl0-12 — Nuclear spin frequencies (Hz) 1H 1 420 405 751.768 +2xl0-3 2H 327 384 352.5222…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005           Using light as a tool With the aid of light we can get a fantastic picture of the world of atoms. This field is called spectroscopy and is a way of investigating the energy-level structure in atoms and molecules. Here the laser, with…

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Chen Ning Yang was born on September 22, 1922, in Hofei, Anwhei, China, the first of five children of Ke Chuan Yang and Meng Hwa Loh Yang. He is also known as Frank or Franklin. Yang was brought up in the peaceful and academically inclined atmosphere of the campus of Tsinghua University, just outside of…

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has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1975 in equal shares to Professor Aage Bohr, Denmark, to Professor Ben Mottelson, Denmark and to Professor James Rainwater, USA, for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of…

English 4 October 2005 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2005 with one half to Roy J. Glauber Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA “for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence” and one half jointly to John L. Hall JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and…

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