Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999
‘t Hooft and Veltman did their Nobel Prize work around 1970. Not until results were presented from the particle accelerator LEP at CERN, the European Laboratory in Geneva, was the breadth of their contributions realised. From these results, among other things, the mass of the top quark could be predicted. This prediction was confirmed when…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 Questions and Answers Related to the Prize What is the mass of the neutrino? We do not know today if the neutrino has a non-zero mass or not. Recent results from experiments seem to indicate that neutrinos do have a very small…
morePolykarp Kusch – Biographical
Biographical
Polykarp Kusch was born in Blankenburg, Germany, on the 26th January, 1911, the son of a clergyman. He has lived in the United States since 1912 and is a citizen of that country. He received his early education in the midwest of the United States. His original professional goal was in the field of chemistry,…
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J. Hans D. Jensen – Biographical
Biographical
J. Hans D. Jensen was born in Hamburg on 25th June 1907, the son of a gardener Karl Jensen. From 1926 he studied physics, mathematics, physical chemistry and philosophy at the Universities of Hamburg and Freiburg i. Br. He obtained his Ph.D in 1932 in Hamburg (physics, Dr.rer.nat.). He became scientific assistant at the Institute…
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Leo Esaki – Biographical
Biographical
Leo Esaki was born in Osaka, Japan in 1925. Esaki completed work for a B.S. in Physics in 1947 and received his Ph.D in 1959, both from the University of Tokyo. Esaki is an IBM Fellow and has been engaged in semiconductor research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York,…
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