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I was born August 27, 1915 in Washington, D.C. My mother, daughter of German immigrants, had been a mathematics instructor at the University of Kansas. My father, descended from Scottish refugees and a West Point graduate, was an officer in the Army Ordnance Corps. His frequently changing assignments took us from Washington, DC to Topeka,…

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Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. For many ages, an important aim of science has been to explain the phenomena we observe by the properties of fundamental particles. In modern physics this problem is of first importance. During the last decade, fundamental particles called “mesons” have turned out…

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Information technology has a profound influence on our entire society. Using fibreoptics and wireless communication, information flows throughout the global network, Internet. Computers at home, in school, and at work allow us to access this information and use it for different purposes. This has all been made possible through scientific and technical developments originating largely…

German 4 oktober 2005 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis für Physik des Jahres 2005 zu verleihen zur einen Hälfte an Roy J. Glauber Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA „für seinen Beitrag zur quantenmechanischen Theorie der optischen Kohärenz“ und zur anderen Hälfte gemeinsam an John L. Hall JILA, University of Colorado und National Institute of Standards and…

Eric A. Cornell http://jilawww.colorado.edu/bec/ Wolfgang Ketterle http://cua.mit.edu/ketterle_group/ Carl E. Wieman http://jilawww.colorado.edu/bec/ University of Colorado (animations, questions and answers etc.) http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/   Further reading in English Advanced information on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2001, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (pdf) The Bose-Einstein Condensate by E.A. Cornell and C.E. Wieman, Scientific American, March…