Nobel Prize

French 9 octobre 2001 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Physique pour l’année 2001 conjointement à Eric A. Cornell JILA et National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, et Carl E. Wieman JILA et University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, ”pour…

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I was born on June 26, 1937 in Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. My parents, Lois Price Richardson and Robert Franklin Richardson, lived in Arlington, VA. My sister and only sibling, Addie Ann Richardson, was born on May 6, 1939, also in Georgetown University Hospital. My earliest memories are of the apartment building in…

John Lewis Hall (known by many as Jan) was born on August 21, 1934 in Denver, Colorado. His father (John Ernest Hall) was trained as an electrical engineer and worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on many hydroelectric projects here and overseas. His mother, Rae (Long) Hall was an elementary school teacher and singer.…

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Presentation Speech by the former Rector General of National Antiquities H. Hildebrand, President of , on December 10, 1909 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Research in physics has provided us with many surprises. Discoveries which at first seemed to have but theoretical interest have often led to inventions of the greatest importance…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Stenholm, Member of the , December 10, 2005. Professor Stig Stenholm delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, We live in a world of light. We experience our surroundings by…

Swedish 10 oktober 2000 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik år 2000till forskare och uppfinnare, vars arbeten lagt grunden till den moderna informationstekniken, IT,speciellt genom sina uppfinningar av snabba transistorer, laserdioder och integrerade kretsar (chips). Priset utdelas med ena hälften gemensamt till Zhores I. AlferovA.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Ryssland, och Herbert KroemerUniversity of…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.       David M. Lee Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Photo: R. Barker, Cornell University Photography   Douglas D. Osheroff Stanford University,…