Physics
Oven in the sun
The electroweak interactions play an extremely important role in nature. There would be no atoms without electromagnetism and the sun would not shine without weak interactions! Electromagnetic interactions make the electrons keep to their orbits around the nucleus and weak interactions transform protons into neutrons and “bake” them into helium nuclei in the “oven” in…
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Pressemitteilung: Der Nobelpreis in Physik 2002
Press release
German 8. Oktober 2002 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2002 in Physik zu verleihen zur einen Hälfte gemeinsam an Raymond Davis Jr Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, und Masatoshi Koshiba Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan „für bahnbrechende Arbeiten in der Astrophysik, insbesondere für den…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 Masatoshi Koshiba International Centre for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan The Supernova 1987A The neutrinos arrived at 07:35 on 23 February 1987. Photo: The Anglo-Australian Observatory There is a clear increase in the signal for neutrinos coming from the sun.…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 Further reading web site with animations, questions and answers etc.: The Bose-Einstein Condensate, by E.A. Cornell and C.E. Wieman, Scientific American, March 1998, p. 26. Bose-Einstein Condensation, by Ch. Townsend, W. Ketterle and S. Stringari, Physics World, March 1997, p. 29. Experimental Studies of Bose-Einstein Condensation,…
moreNicolay G. Basov – Biographical
Biographical
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was born on December, 14, 1922 in the small town of Usman near Voronezh, the son of Gennady Fedorovich Basov and Zinaida Andreevna Molchanova. His father was a professor of the Voronezh Forest Institute and devoted his life to investigation of the influence of forest belts on underground waters and on surface…
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Sir Nevill F. Mott – Biographical
Biographical
Nevill Francis Mott was born in Leeds, U.K., on September 30th, 1905. His parents, Charles Francis Mott and Lilian Mary (née) Reynolds, met when working under in the Cavendish Laboratory; his great grandfather was Sir John Richardson, the arctic explorer. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he studied…
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