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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics honors three scientists, who have had important roles in shaping modern information technology, with one half to Charles Kuen Kao and with Willard Sterling Boyle and George Elwood Smith sharing the other half. Kao’s discoveries have paved the way for optical fiber technology,…
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Credits and References for the 1999 Physics Nobel Poster
Editorial Board: Prof. Cecilia Jarlskog, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, and M. Sc. Linda Jarlskog, Lund University, Prof. Anders Bárány, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Science Editor Eva Krutmeijer and Dr. Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Typoform Printing: Tryckindustri 1999. Copyright © , Information Department,…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. Contents: | | | | | | | | …
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2002 with one half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr and Masatoshi Koshiba “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos” and the other half to Riccardo Giacconi…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 To the left, Ketterle’s first interference pattern. The interference pattern between two expanding condensates resembles that formed by throwing two stones into still water. Large condensates and interference patterns Wolfgang Ketterle came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990. He…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hulthén, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has this year awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics to Professor Frits Zernike, Groningen, for the phase-contrast method devised by him, and particularly for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope. Zernike’s discovery falls within…
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