Physics
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Tord Claeson of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Tord Claeson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Information technology (IT) influences our lives at many levels.…
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Popular information
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English The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000″for basic work on information and communication technology” The prize is being awarded with one half jointly toZhores I. Alferov, A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, andHerbert Kroemer, University of California at Santa Barbara, California, USA,”for developing semiconductor heterostructures…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
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…
moreBen R. Mottelson – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 9, 1926, the second of three children of Goodman Mottelson and Georgia Mottelson (née Blum). My father held a university degree in engineering. My childhood home was a place where scientific, political and moral issues were freely and vigorously discussed. I attended primary school and high school…
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals – Biographical
Biographical
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born on November 23, 1837 in Leyden, The Netherlands, the son of Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg. After having finished elementary education at his birthplace he became a schoolteacher. Although he had no knowledge of classical languages, and thus was not allowed to take academic…
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Makoto Kobayashi – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Nagoya, Japan on April 7, 1944. As it was in the middle of the Second World War, I was evacuated to Kawagoe Village in Mie Prefecture the following year to escape the aerial bombardment over Nagoya. Soon after the war ended, my father passed away. As I was only two years…
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