2005
Pressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2005
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Swedish 4 oktober 2005 har beslutat utdela 2005 års Nobelpris i Fysik med ena hälften till Roy J. Glauber Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA “för hans bidrag till den kvantmekaniska teorin för optisk koherens” och med andra hälften gemensamt till John L. Hall JILA, University of Colorado och National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder,…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 Credits Editors: Sune Svanberg, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Stig Stenholm, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Björn Jacobsson, KTH, Jonas Förare, Eva Krutmeijer and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Typoform Printing: Katarinatryck AB 2005 …
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 Quantum mechanics – what is it? Quantum mechanics describes the laws and phenomena in the microcosmos, among tiny particles and incredibly weak light, photons. These laws do not always agree with our common sense, nor do they fit in with our everyday…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2005 with one half to Roy J. Glauber “for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence” and one half jointly to John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch “for their…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 Guaranteed secure cryptography One practical application of quantum optics is the possibility to exchange cryptographic keys without fear of their being broken – which is the bottleneck of all cryptography. These keys are used to encipher a message between a transmitter and…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 Are the fundamental constants really constant? Thanks to highly stabilised laser systems we can now make measurements with very great accuracy. For example, Hall has been able to verify what the theory of relativity predicts – that light has the same speed…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 Using light as a tool With the aid of light we can get a fantastic picture of the world of atoms. This field is called spectroscopy and is a way of investigating the energy-level structure in atoms and molecules. Here the laser, with…
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