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Award ceremony speech

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Carlson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, den 10 december 2006. Professor Per Carlson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Pristagare, mina damer och herrar, Blicka ut mot himlen en stjärnklar kväll och fascineras över det kosmiska skådespel som…

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Press release

Swedish 3 oktober 2006 har beslutat utdela 2006 års Nobelpris i Fysik gemensamt till John C. Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, och George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA “för upptäckten av den kosmiska bakgrundsstrålningens svartkroppsform och anisotropi”. Bilder från universums barndom Årets Fysikpris belönar arbeten som blickar tillbaka…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006     1915 1918 1922 1927 1929 1940s 1949 1978 1989   1915 publishes his general theory of relativity for gravity. 1918 awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the law of blackbody radiation using energy quanta. 1922 Alexander Friedmann discovers an expanding Universe in…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006             Editors: Ulrika Björkstén, The Nobel Museum, Joakim Edsjö, Stockholm University, Mark Pearce, The Royal Institute of Technology, Per Carlson, chairperson of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Lars Bergström, secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Helena Enstedt and Malin Lindgren, The Royal…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006   Contents: |  |  |  |  |  |  | |   Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web AB.

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006       The DMR – Differential Microwave Radiometer – collected and compared microwave background radiation from different directions on the sky. These temperature differences can be visualised on a map of the heavens.     Contents: |  |  |  |  |  |  | |   Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy…

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  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 2006         FIRAS – Far Infrared Absolute Spectrometer – was the instrument on board COBE that registered the blackbody spectrum of the microwave background radiation. The radiation lies in the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum and has a wavelength of only a few millimeters. The…

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Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 8 oktober 2002 Årets Nobelpris i fysik handlar om upptäckter och detektion av partiklar och strålning från kosmos, som lett till framväxandet av två nya forskningsfält, neutrinoastronomin och röntgenastronomin. Priset utdelas med ena hälften till Raymond Davis Jr, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA och Masatoshi Koshiba, International…

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German 8. Oktober 2002 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2002 in Physik zu verleihen zur einen Hälfte gemeinsam an Raymond Davis Jr Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, und Masatoshi Koshiba Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan „für bahnbrechende Arbeiten in der Astrophysik, insbesondere für den…

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