Nobel Prize

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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  Presentation Speech by professor Stig Lundqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1973 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Drs. Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for their discoveries of tunnelling phenomena in solids. The tunnelling phenomena belong to the most…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Delsing, Member of the , 10 December 2010 Professor Per Delsing delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for research concerning a…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002           The discovery of the first known X-ray source outside the solar system, Scorpius X-1. This observation was made in 1962, with an Aerobee rocket. X-ray background radiation was also detected.   Scorpius X-1 (artist’s impression) is a binary system consisting of a neutron…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Presentation Speech by Professor Cecilia Jarlskog of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Cecilia Jarlskog delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Everything is made up of water,” Thales told us…