Nobel Prize

Life goes on surprisingly fast. It seems to happen a short time ago that I would attend anniversary celebrations in honour of noted physicists, my teachers who to my mind looked quite old. But at the present time, I myself have recently marked the 70th birthday. My parents, Ivan Karpovich, and Anna Vladimirovna, had been…

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  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…

I was born on August 25, 1928 in Weimar, Germany. My father was a civil servant working for the city administration of my home town; my mother was a classical German “Hausfrau.” Both came from simple skilled-craftsmen families. Neither had a high-school education, but there was never any doubt that they wanted to have their…

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Presentation Speech by Dr. H.R. Törnebladh, President of on December 10, 1903 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The last decade’s record of development in the physical sciences is outstanding for the discoveries, as unexpected as they are impressive, that have been made. The Royal Academy of Sciences has been accorded the task…

Presentation Speech by Professor O.B. Klein, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Tsung Dao Lee and Professor Chen Ning Yang for this year is concerned with some of the fundamental physical principles, the so-called parity laws – in the first place the symmetry…