Nobel Prize

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Delsing, ledamot av ; 10 December 2010 Professor Per Delsing presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Årets Nobelpris i fysik belönar forskning som rör ett nytt ultratunt material med fantastiska egenskaper. Materialet heter grafen och är det…

Swedish 3 oktober 2006 har beslutat utdela 2006 års Nobelpris i Fysik gemensamt till John C. Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, och George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA “för upptäckten av den kosmiska bakgrundsstrålningens svartkroppsform och anisotropi”. Bilder från universums barndom Årets Fysikpris belönar arbeten som blickar tillbaka…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002   In the centre of our galaxy lies an X-ray source, the intensity of which can fluctuate wildly by the minute. Is this radiation emitted from matter that is falling into a super-massive black hole? The galaxy NGC 5128 is located 11 million light years from earth. What…

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John William Strutt, third Baron Rayleigh, was born on November 12, 1842 at Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex, as the son of John James Strutt, second Baron, and his wife Clara Elizabeth La Touche, eldest daughter of Captain Richard Vicars, R. E. He was one of the very few members of higher nobility who won fame…

Hans Albrecht Bethe was born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, on July 2 1906. He attended the Gymnasium in Frankfurt from 1915 to 1924. He then studied at the University of Frankfurt for two years, and at Munich for two and one half years, taking his Ph. D. in theoretical physics with Professor Arnold Sommerfeld in July…

In Memory of Marc Antonio Giacconi and dedicated to my wife, Mirella, and to our daughters, Anna and Guia. I. Early yearsI was born in Genoa, Italy, on October 6, 1931, but I spent most of my life until 1956 in Milano. I was the only child. My mother, Elsa Canni Giacconi, was a teacher…

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