Nobel Prize

Hideki Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on 23rd January, 1907, the third son of Takuji Ogawa, who later became Professor of Geology at Kyoto University. The future Laureate was brought up in Kyoto and graduated from the local university in 1929. Since that time he has been engaged on investigations in theoretical physics, particularly…

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Presentation Speech by Professor K.B. Hasselberg, member of , on December 10, 1907 The Royal Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics to Professor Albert A. Michelson of Chicago, for his optical precision instruments and the research which he has carried out with their help in the fields of…

Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Since discovery of the atomic nucleus fifty years ago, one of the most fundamental problems in physics has been to investigate how it is constituted. The ideas on this question could be firmly founded when, shortly after 1930,…

Presentation Speech by professor Sven Johansson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the end of the 1940’s, nuclear physics had advanced to a stage where a more detailed picture of the structure of the atomic nucleus was beginning to emerge and it was becoming possible…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the . Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, The air that we breathe not only contains oxygen and nitrogen, but also small quantities of other gases. One of these – often mentioned in connection with the global greenhouse effect – is…

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French 10 Octobre 2000 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Physique de l’année 2000 à des chercheurs et inventeurs dont les travaux ont jeté les bases des nouvelles technologies de l’information, en particulier par leur invention des transistors rapides, des diodes laser et des circuits intégrés (puces). Le prix est attribué pour moitié conjointement…