Nobel Prize

I was born on March 26, 1951 in the small town of Corvallis, Oregon. A number of years earlier my newly wed parents N. Orr and Alison Wieman, like somewhat belated pioneers, had driven their decrepit car across the country to settle deep in the forests of the Oregon coastal range. My father began working…

Read the interview Professor Giaever, welcome to us and thank you for being here with us today. When you received the prize back in 1973, you were three laureates who shared it. Ivar Giaever: Yes. You came from very different backgrounds, you hadn’t worked together. How was your reaction when you realised…

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Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Cederblom, President of , on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has decided that the Nobel Prize for Physics for the present year is to be awarded to Lord Rayleigh, Professor at the Royal Institution, London, for his investigations on…

Presentation Speech by Professor Per Carlson of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Per Carlson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Does the slow gravitational contraction of the sun produce…

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Sometimes the old gives rise to the new in wonderfully unexpected ways. Such was the case with graphene: an entirely new form of carbon, the world’s first 2-dimensional material and the subject of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This novel wonder material, which offers possibilities ranging from faster computers to new insights into quantum…

  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft and Professor Emeritus Martinus J.G. Veltman for “elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.” The structure of particle physics is described using the Standard Model. In this model electromagnetic and weak interactions…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002     Credits Editors: Mark Pearce, The Royal Institute of Technology, Björn Davidsson, Uppsala University, Per Carlson and Bengt Gustafsson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Anders Bárány, Secr. of the Nobel committee for Physics, Jonas Förare and Katarina Werner, Information Department, The Royal Swedish Academy of…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001       The Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose had made some statistical calculations concerning light particles, photons. He sent his results to Albert Einstein, who translated them and made sure they were published. He also extended the theory to include material particles.   The air between you…