Physics

Press release

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…

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions of importance for the development of atomic precision spectroscopy         Hans Dehmelt University of Washington Seattle, USA Wolfgang Paul Universität Bonn Federal Republic of Germany Norman F. Ramsey Harvard University Cambridge, USA for the development of…

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Popular information

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 9 oktober 2001 Årets Nobelpris i fysik handlar om ett extremt materietillstånd kallat Bose-Einsteinkondensat (BEC). De tre forskare som gemensamt får priset är Eric A. Cornell, JILA och National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, och Carl E. Wieman,…

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Biographical

John Lewis Hall (known by many as Jan) was born on August 21, 1934 in Denver, Colorado. His father (John Ernest Hall) was trained as an electrical engineer and worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on many hydroelectric projects here and overseas. His mother, Rae (Long) Hall was an elementary school teacher and singer.…

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