Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Lamek Hulthén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s prize is shared between Peter Leonidovitj Kapitza, Moscow, “for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics” and Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA,…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Professor Lars Brink, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2008 Professor Lars Brink delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, “The Earth is round.”…

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Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Stig Stenholm, ledamot av , den 10 december 2005. Professor Stig Stenholm presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Vi lever i en värld av ljus. Vi upplever omvärlden genom synen. Likaså ger ljuset från de avlägsnaste galaxerna kunskap…

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on June 5, 1900, the oldest son of Bertalan Gabor, director of a mining company, and his wife Adrienne. My life-long love of physics started suddenly at the age of 15. I could not wait until I got to the university, I learned the calculus and worked through the…

Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strelno, Prussia, on December 19, 1852. Two years later his family emigrated to the United States to settle at Virginia City, Nevada, but they eventually moved to San Francisco where Michelson received his early education in public schools, matriculating from the High School in 1869. He was appointed by…

Robert Hofstadter, Professor of Physics at Stanford University, was born in New York, N.Y., of parents Louis Hofstadter and Henrietta Koenigsberg, on February 5, 1915. Hofstadter attended elementary and high schools in New York City, and was graduated in 1935 from the College of the City of New York with the B.S. degree, magna cum…

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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…