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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,…

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‘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…

The electroweak interactions play an extremely important role in nature. There would be no atoms without electromagnetism and the sun would not shine without weak interactions! Electromagnetic interactions make the electrons keep to their orbits around the nucleus and weak interactions transform protons into neutrons and “bake” them into helium nuclei in the “oven” in…

Contents: Based on materials from the 1999 Nobel Poster for Physics.

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  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…

Live web cast from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. The live web cast is now over. The announcement will later be published here as video on-demand.

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Delsing, ledamot av ; 10 December 2010 Professor Per Delsing presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Årets Nobelpris i fysik belönar forskning som rör ett nytt ultratunt material med fantastiska egenskaper. Materialet heter grafen och är det…