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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor G. Ising, member of Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the Nobel Prize for Physics may be awarded for “discovery or invention in the field of physics”. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in awarding this years’ prize to Professor P.M.S. Blackett of Manchester,…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor B. Edlén, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for physics is in this year given for the invention of the maser and the laser. “Maser” stands for “microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”, and the word “laser” is obtained by replacing “microwave”…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 1915 1918 1922 1927 1929 1940s 1949 1978 1989 1915 publishes his general theory of relativity for gravity. 1918 awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the law of blackbody radiation using energy quanta. 1922 Alexander Friedmann discovers an expanding Universe in…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 The Supernova 1987A Photo: The Anglo-Australian Observatory What is a supernova? When the fusion reactions in a massive star end, it collapses and throws off its outer layers in a giant explosion. In just a few seconds, huge amounts of energy –…
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