Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize laureates are presented in Nature, 19th October, and Science, 20th October, 1989 “First trap your atom”, Richard Thompson, New Scientist, Vol 115, no 1576, pp 56-59, 1987 (On ion traps, laser cooling, quantum jumps, etc) “Laser spectroscopy of trapped atomic ions”, W.M. Itano, J.C. Bergquist & D.J. Wineland, Science, Vol 237, pp…

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I was born in Munich, Germany, in 1933. I spent the first six years of my life comfortably, as an adored child in a closely-knit middle-class family. Even when my family was rounded up for deportation to Poland it didn’t occur to me that anything could happen to us. All I remember is scrambling up…

Antoine Henri Becquerel was born in Paris on December 15, 1852, a member of a distinguished family of scholars and scientists. His father, Alexander Edmond Becquerel, was a Professor of Applied Physics and had done research on solar radiation and on phosphorescence, while his grandfather, Antoine César, had been a Fellow of the Royal Society…

Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee was born in Shanghai, China, on November 24, 1926, the third of six children of Tsing-Kong Lee and Ming-Chang Chang. He received most of his high school education in Shanghai. During 1943-1944, he attended the National Chekiang University in Kweichow Province. In 1945, he attended the National Southwest Associated University in Kunming,…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to three scientists in the field of optics. Roy Glauber is awarded half of the Prize for his theoretical description of the behaviour of light particles. John Hall and Theodor Hänsch share the other half of the Prize for their development…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are there so many different elementary particles? This year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics have presented theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what happens far inside the tiniest building blocks of matter. Unravelling the hidden symmetries of nature Nature’s…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 10 oktober 2000 har utdelat Nobelpriset i fysik år 2000 “för arbeten som lagt grunden till den moderna informationstekniken.” Priset utdelas med ena hälften gemensamt till Zhores I. Alferov, A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, S:t Petersburg, Ryssland, och Herbert Kroemer, University of California at Santa Barbara, Kalifornien, USA, “för utvecklingen av halvledarheterostrukturer för…