Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 The coldest planetary body in the Solar System is Triton, a moon of Neptune. (-235 °C or 38 K) The lowest temperatures in nature have been measured at Vostok, Antarctica. (-89 °C or 183 K) Absolute Zero Physicists use a scale for temperature…
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Willis E. Lamb – Biographical
Biographical
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was born on July 12, 1913 in Los Angeles, California. His father Willis Eugene Lamb, born in Minnesota, was by profession a telephone engineer and his mother Marie Helen Metcalf came from Nebraska. Except for three years schooling in Oakland, Calif., he was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles,…
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Maria Goeppert Mayer – Biographical
Biographical
Maria Goeppert Mayer was born on June 28, 1906, in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, then Germany, the only child of Friedrich Goeppert and his wife Maria, nee Wolff. On her father’s side, she is the seventh straight generation of university professors. In 1910 her father went as Professor of Pediatrics to Göttingen where she spent most…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999
‘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…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 Questions and Answers Related to the Prize What is the mass of the neutrino? We do not know today if the neutrino has a non-zero mass or not. Recent results from experiments seem to indicate that neutrinos do have a very small…
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