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English 3 October 2006 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, and George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. Pictures of…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics honors three scientists, who have had important roles in shaping modern information technology, with one half to Charles Kuen Kao and with Willard Sterling Boyle and George Elwood Smith sharing the other half. Kao’s discoveries have paved the way for optical fiber technology,…
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Editorial Board: Prof. Cecilia Jarlskog, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, and M. Sc. Linda Jarlskog, Lund University, Prof. Anders Bárány, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Science Editor Eva Krutmeijer and Dr. Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Typoform Printing: Tryckindustri 1999. Copyright © , Information Department,…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. Contents: | | | | | | | | …
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 To the left, Ketterle’s first interference pattern. The interference pattern between two expanding condensates resembles that formed by throwing two stones into still water. Large condensates and interference patterns Wolfgang Ketterle came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990. He…
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