Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1979 Towards a Unified Theory – Threads in a Tapestry Pdf 59 kB

Date of birth: 29 January, 1926 Place of birth: Jhang, Pakistan Educational Career Government College, Jhang and Lahore (1938-1946) M.A. (Punjab University) Foundation Scholar, St. John’s College, Cambridge (1946- 1949) B.A. Honours Double first in Mathematics (Wrangler) and Physics Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1952) Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics Awarded Smith’s Prize by the University of Cambridge…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1979 Conceptual Foundations of the Unified Theory of Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions Pdf 76 kB

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Allan M. Cormack’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Godfrey Hounsfield has asked me to speak for both of us. We would most respectfully request Your Majesty to convey to the Nobel Foundation and the Nobel Assembly of Karolinska Institutet our intense gratitude for the…

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Odysseus Elytis’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 (in French) Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Le voyage d’Odysseus, dont il m’a été donné de porter le nom, semble ne devoir jamais s’achever. Et c’est heureux. Comme l’observait un de nos grands poètes contemporains, l’essentiel n’est pas dans le retour à Ithaque, qui…

Major works in Greek Prosanatolizmi, 1940 Ilios o protos, 1943 Asma heroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tes Albanias, 1945 To axion esti, 1959 Exi kai mia tipsis yia ton ourano, 1960 Thanatos ke anastasis tou Konstandinou Paleologhou, 1971 To fotodhendro ke i dhekati tetarti omorfia, 1971 Maria Nefeli, 1978 Tria poiemata me simea…