Physics
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor C.W. Oseen, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1929 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The question as to the nature of light rays is one of the oldest problems in physics. In the works of the ancient philosophers are to be found…
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Press release
Press release
English 6 October 2009 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. KaoStandard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication” and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 Contents: | | | | | | | | Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web AB.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 Riccardo Giacconi Associated Universities Inc., Washington, DC, USA Photo: National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) On 18 June 1962, a new era in astronomy started when a rocket experiment demonstrated the presence of X-ray radiation outside the solar system. Leading the project was…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 The density of the atomic cloud is shown, with temperature decreasing from left to right. The high peak, the Bose-Einstein condensate, emerges above the other atoms. The picture is from the JILA laboratory. …coldest! Eric A. Cornell joined Wieman as a co-worker…
moreGeorge Paget Thomson – Biographical
Biographical
George Paget Thomson was born in 1892 at Cambridge, the son of the late (then Professor of Physics at Cambridge University), a Nobel Prize winner who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the discovery of the electron, and Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of the late Sir George Paget, Regius Professor of Medicine at Cambridge.…
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