Nobel Prize

German Imre Kertész wurde am 9. November 1929 in Budapest geboren. Er ist jüdischer Herkunft. 1944 wurde er nach Auschwitz und von dort nach Buchenwald verschleppt, wo er 1945 befreit wurde. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Ungarn arbeitete er ab 1948 an der Zeitung Világosság in Budapest, wurde aber 1951 entlassen, als die Zeitung parteitreu wurde.…

French Imre Kertész est né le 9 novembre 1929 à Budapest, dans une famille juive. 1944 il fut déporté au camp de concentration d’Auschwitz-Birkenau. Il fut libéré à Buchenwald en 1945. Après son retour en Hongrie, il travailla à Budapest pour le quotidien Világosság à partir de 1948, puis il fut licencié en 1951 quand…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002           Raymond Davis Jr University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, previously at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA. A neutrino produced an argon atom in the tank every other day.   ELUSIVE PARTICLES CAPTURED IN CLEANING FLUID Neutrinos rarely interact with matter and are…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002           Riccardo Giacconi Associated Universities Inc., Washington, DC, USA Photo: National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)   On 18 June 1962, a new era in astronomy started when a rocket experiment demonstrated the presence of X-ray radiation outside the solar system. Leading the project was…

Presentation Speech by Professor Per Carlson of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Per Carlson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Does the slow gravitational contraction of the sun produce…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2002 with one half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr and Masatoshi Koshiba “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos” and the other half to Riccardo Giacconi…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 8 oktober 2002 Årets Nobelpris i fysik handlar om upptäckter och detektion av partiklar och strålning från kosmos, som lett till framväxandet av två nya forskningsfält, neutrinoastronomin och röntgenastronomin. Priset utdelas med ena hälften till Raymond Davis Jr, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA och Masatoshi Koshiba, International…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002             A NEW VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE Galileo Galilei discovered new worlds with his telescope. Over the centuries, a picture of a calm and stable universe emerged – the planets untiringly orbited the sun and the stars quietly burned their hydrogen into helium…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002       Questions and Answers Related to the Prize       What is the mass of the neutrino? We do not know today if the neutrino has a non-zero mass or not. Recent results from experiments seem to indicate that neutrinos do have a very small…

I was born in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 1914. My father was a photographer at the National Bureau of Standards. A self-educated man, he never finished high school, but, in his career at the National Bureau of Standards, he made many useful inventions, and eventually became chief of the Photographic Technology Section. His early…