Nobel Prize

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005             Quantum mechanics – what is it? Quantum mechanics describes the laws and phenomena in the microcosmos, among tiny particles and incredibly weak light, photons. These laws do not always agree with our common sense, nor do they fit in with our everyday…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2005 with one half to Roy J. Glauber “for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence” and one half jointly to John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch “for their…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005             Guaranteed secure cryptography One practical application of quantum optics is the possibility to exchange cryptographic keys without fear of their being broken – which is the bottleneck of all cryptography. These keys are used to encipher a message between a transmitter and…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005             Are the fundamental constants really constant? Thanks to highly stabilised laser systems we can now make measurements with very great accuracy. For example, Hall has been able to verify what the theory of relativity predicts – that light has the same speed…

  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…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 9 oktober 2001 Årets Nobelpris i fysik handlar om ett extremt materietillstånd kallat Bose-Einsteinkondensat (BEC). De tre forskare som gemensamt får priset är Eric A. Cornell, JILA och National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, och Carl E. Wieman,…

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…

German 9 Oktober 2001 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2001 in Physik gemeinsam zu verleihen an Eric A. Cornell JILA und National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, und Carl E. Wieman JILA und University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, „für…

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…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Brink, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 December 2008 Professor Lars Brink presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2008 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Jorden är rund. Denna enkla mening rymmer så mycket. Den visar att vi människor ser objekten…