Nobel Prize

English 8 October 2002 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2002 with one half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and Masatoshi Koshiba International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Joseph Nordgren, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2009 Professor Joseph Nordgren delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in…

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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…

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…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002           Masatoshi Koshiba International Centre for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan   The Supernova 1987A The neutrinos arrived at 07:35 on 23 February 1987. Photo: The Anglo-Australian Observatory There is a clear increase in the signal for neutrinos coming from the sun.…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001     Further reading web site with animations, questions and answers etc.: The Bose-Einstein Condensate, by E.A. Cornell and C.E. Wieman, Scientific American, March 1998, p. 26. Bose-Einstein Condensation, by Ch. Townsend, W. Ketterle and S. Stringari, Physics World, March 1997, p. 29. Experimental Studies of Bose-Einstein Condensation,…

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Ivar Giaever was born in Bergen, Norway, April 5, 1929, the second of three children. He grew up in Toten where his father, John A. Giaever, was a pharmacist. He attended elementary school in Toten but received his secondary education in the city of Hamar. Next he worked one year at the Raufoss Munition Factories…