Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Lamek Hulthén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s prize is shared between Peter Leonidovitj Kapitza, Moscow, “for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics” and Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA,…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Professor Lars Brink, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2008 Professor Lars Brink delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, “The Earth is round.”…

Editors: Professor Anders Larsson, Department of Microelectronics, Chalmers University of Technology, Professor Anders Bárány, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Dr. Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Layout: Kjell Lundin, Explicare Printing: Tryckindustri 2000 © , Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel:+46 8 673 95 00, Fax:+46 8-15 56 70, e-mail:…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Stig Stenholm, ledamot av , den 10 december 2005. Professor Stig Stenholm presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Vi lever i en värld av ljus. Vi upplever omvärlden genom synen. Likaså ger ljuset från de avlägsnaste galaxerna kunskap…

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I was born August 27, 1915 in Washington, D.C. My mother, daughter of German immigrants, had been a mathematics instructor at the University of Kansas. My father, descended from Scottish refugees and a West Point graduate, was an officer in the Army Ordnance Corps. His frequently changing assignments took us from Washington, DC to Topeka,…

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