Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties…
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Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreAleksandr M. Prokhorov – Biographical
Biographical
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov was born on July 11th, 1916, in Australia. After the Great October Revolution he went in 1923 with his parents to the Soviet Union. In 1934 Alexander Prochorov entered the Physics Department of the Leningrad State University. He attended lectures of Prof. V.A. Fock (quantum mechanics, theory of relativity), Prof. S.E. Frish…
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John C. Mather – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on Aug. 7, 1946 in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city near Blacksburg where my father was a young faculty member at the school now called Virginia Tech. For some generations, my family on both sides has been populated with scientists and school teachers. My father, Robert E. Mather, was starting his research…
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Carl E. Wieman – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on March 26, 1951 in the small town of Corvallis, Oregon. A number of years earlier my newly wed parents N. Orr and Alison Wieman, like somewhat belated pioneers, had driven their decrepit car across the country to settle deep in the forests of the Oregon coastal range. My father began working…
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Ivar Giaever – Interview
Interview
Read the interview Professor Giaever, welcome to us and thank you for being here with us today. When you received the prize back in 1973, you were three laureates who shared it. Ivar Giaever: Yes. You came from very different backgrounds, you hadn’t worked together. How was your reaction when you realised…
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