Nobel Prize

Swedish 8 oktober 2002 har beslutat att utdela Nobelpriset i fysik år 2002 med hälften av priset gemensamt till Raymond Davis JrDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, och Masatoshi KoshibaInternational Centre for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan ”för banbrytande insatser inom astrofysiken, särskilt för detektion av kosmiska neutriner” och…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001         Cooling of alkali atoms towards BEC   Particles or Waves? Both! Light is often described as waves, but it can also be described as a stream of light particles, photons. Matter is also characterised by this dualism. In the 1920s, Louis de Broglie suggested…

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was born on December, 14, 1922 in the small town of Usman near Voronezh, the son of Gennady Fedorovich Basov and Zinaida Andreevna Molchanova. His father was a professor of the Voronezh Forest Institute and devoted his life to investigation of the influence of forest belts on underground waters and on surface…

I was born on Aug. 7, 1946 in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city near Blacksburg where my father was a young faculty member at the school now called Virginia Tech. For some generations, my family on both sides has been populated with scientists and school teachers. My father, Robert E. Mather, was starting his research…

I was born on March 26, 1951 in the small town of Corvallis, Oregon. A number of years earlier my newly wed parents N. Orr and Alison Wieman, like somewhat belated pioneers, had driven their decrepit car across the country to settle deep in the forests of the Oregon coastal range. My father began working…

Read the interview Professor Giaever, welcome to us and thank you for being here with us today. When you received the prize back in 1973, you were three laureates who shared it. Ivar Giaever: Yes. You came from very different backgrounds, you hadn’t worked together. How was your reaction when you realised…

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Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1938 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. With what we know today of the structure of atoms, we understand perfectly the hopeless task undertaken by alchemists of old, striving to transmute the different elements one…