Physics

Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by professor Stig Lundqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1973 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Drs. Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for their discoveries of tunnelling phenomena in solids. The tunnelling phenomena belong to the most…

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Award ceremony speech

English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Delsing, Member of the , 10 December 2010 Professor Per Delsing delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for research concerning a…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002           The discovery of the first known X-ray source outside the solar system, Scorpius X-1. This observation was made in 1962, with an Aerobee rocket. X-ray background radiation was also detected.   Scorpius X-1 (artist’s impression) is a binary system consisting of a neutron…

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Interview

Interview transcript Professor ‘t Hooft, a key word in physics today, or one of the key words, is unification. There is a lot to talk about unification of forces, according to your mind is unification necessary? Gerardus ‘t Hooft: Usually there is a danger that one overemphasises the need for unification; it’s…

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Biographical

I was born in White Plains, New York in 1930. I grew up in several different states and attended a variety of primary and secondary schools. Upon graduation from high school in 1948, I joined the U.S. Navy where I spent four years as an aerographer’s mate (weatherman), part of it during the Korean War.…

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