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Pressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2002
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Swedish 8 oktober 2002 har beslutat att utdela Nobelpriset i fysik år 2002 med hälften av priset gemensamt till Raymond Davis JrDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, och Masatoshi KoshibaInternational Centre for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan ”för banbrytande insatser inom astrofysiken, särskilt för detektion av kosmiska neutriner” och…
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Summary
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Sir Nevill F. Mott – Biographical
Biographical
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