2009
Presentationstal
Award ceremony speech
Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Joseph Nordgren, ledamot av ; ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 December 2009 Professor Joseph Nordgren presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Årets Nobelpristagare i fysik belönas för arbeten som på ett avgörande sätt har påverkat både vårt…
morePressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2009
Press release
Swedish 6 oktober 2009 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2009 med ena hälften till Charles K. KaoStandard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, Storbritannien och Chinese University of Hong Kong “för banbrytande insatser angående ljustransmission i fibrer för optisk kommunikation” och med den andra hälften gemensamt till Willard S. Boyle och George E. SmithBell Laboratories, Murray Hill,…
moreWillard S. Boyle – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on August 19, 1924 in Amherst, Nova Scotia and raised in the village of Wallace until I was about two years old. At this time, my family moved to Chaudiere, a small logging community in northern Quebec. My father was the local physician in the community and my mother took on the…
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George E. Smith – Biographical
Biographical
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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