Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 Cooling of alkali atoms towards BEC Particles or Waves? Both! Light is often described as waves, but it can also be described as a stream of light particles, photons. Matter is also characterised by this dualism. In the 1920s, Louis de Broglie suggested…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1931
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
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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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
English Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Brink of the , December 10, 2004. Professor Lars Brink delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When Isaac Newton saw the apple fall he understood how gravity works and…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2004
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 The strong force Many tried but failed, to find a theory in which the strength of the strong force decreases as the energy increases. This year’s Nobel Laureates produced a theory with the required minus sign. Contents: | | | | | | | …
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