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Werner Heisenberg was born on 5th December, 1901, at Würzburg. He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg and his wife Annie Wecklein. His father later became Professor of the Middle and Modern Greek languages in the University of Munich. It was probably due to his influence that Heisenberg remarked, when the Japanese physicist Yukawa…

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…

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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11 October 1977 has decided to award the 1977 Nobel Prize for physics to be shared equally between Dr Philip W. Anderson, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, Professor Sir Nevill F. Mott, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England and Professor John H. Van Vleck, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, for their fundamental theoretical investigations…

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Live web cast from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. The live web cast is now over. The announcement will later be published here as video on-demand.