Nobel Prize

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…

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. My parents were completing graduate degrees at Stanford. Two years later we moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city I consider to be my hometown. My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. The family, including my younger…

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Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 1937 will today be delivered to Dr. C.J. Davisson and Professor G.P. Thomson for their discovery of the interference phenomena…