Physics
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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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 is awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot for their discovery of the basic form of the cosmic microwave background radiation as well as its small variations in different directions. The very detailed observations that the Laureates have carried out…
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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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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 A NEW VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE Galileo Galilei discovered new worlds with his telescope. Over the centuries, a picture of a calm and stable universe emerged – the planets untiringly orbited the sun and the stars quietly burned their hydrogen into helium…
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