Physics
Robert Hofstadter – Biographical
Biographical
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…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. When, shortly after 1930, Alfred Kastler embarked upon a scientific career, he concentrated his attention on problems connected with light scattering. He used novel methods to analyse this phenomenon, which had already been studied by projecting light emitted by…
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(press release): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Chip. T.R. Reid, Simon & Shuster, New York 1984. The 100-million-transistor IC, L. Geppert, and related articles in the Special Report: Semiconductors, IEEE Spectrum, p. 22, July 1999. Physics and the information revolution, J. Birnbaum and R.S. Williams, Physics Today, p. 38, January 2000. Heterostructure lasers,…
morePressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2005
Press release
Swedish 4 oktober 2005 har beslutat utdela 2005 års Nobelpris i Fysik med ena hälften till Roy J. Glauber Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA “för hans bidrag till den kvantmekaniska teorin för optisk koherens” och med andra hälften gemensamt till John L. Hall JILA, University of Colorado och National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder,…
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