Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor O. Klein, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics – to professor Hans A. Bethe – concerns an old riddle. How has it been possible for the sun to emit light and heat without exhausting its source not only during the…

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Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 12 October 1999 has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Professor Emeritus Martinus J. G. Veltman, University of Michigan, USA, resident in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. “for elucidating the quantum structure of…

  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…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001       The density of the atomic cloud is shown, with temperature decreasing from left to right. The high peak, the Bose-Einstein condensate, emerges above the other atoms. The picture is from the JILA laboratory.       …coldest! Eric A. Cornell joined Wieman as a co-worker…

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George Paget Thomson was born in 1892 at Cambridge, the son of the late (then Professor of Physics at Cambridge University), a Nobel Prize winner who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the discovery of the electron, and Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of the late Sir George Paget, Regius Professor of Medicine at Cambridge.…

Lev Davidovic Landau was born in Baku on January 22, 1908, as the son of an engineer and a physician. After graduating from the Physical Department of Leningrad University at the age of 19, he began his scientific career at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute. The years 1929 – 1931 he spent abroad, partly as a…

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