Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The discovery of the phenomenon now known as the Cerenkov effect, for which the Nobel Prize is today being awarded, is an interesting example of how a relatively simple physical observation, if followed through in the right way, can…

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Surely we all have often admired the beautiful white streaks which are left against the blue heaven by a highflying jet airplane. These streaks are made up of very small, finely divided waterdrops which have been condensed into a cloud…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The electrons of an atom move according to the laws of quantum mechanics established in 1925 and the next following years. For the hydrogen atom, which has only one electron and consequently is the simplest atom to investigate theoretically,…

17 October 1990 has decided to award the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professors Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall both of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, and Richard E. Taylor of Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons…

14 October 1992 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1992 to Professor Georges Charpak, France, École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie, Paris and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. A breakthrough in the technique for exploring the innermost parts of…

Presentation Speech by professor Stig Lundqvist, Chalmers University of Technology Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1972 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Drs John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper and J. Robert Schrieffer for their theory of superconductivity, usually referred to as the BCS-theory. Superconductivity is a…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindgren of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel prize in physics is shared between three scientists – Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow, both from the United States, and Kai Siegbahn from Sweden – for their contributions to the development…

Presentation Speech by Professor Cecilia Jarlskog of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, One of the most important tasks of physics is to provide us with a clearer picture of the world we live in. We know that the observable universe is much larger than any of…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Georges Charpak, France, for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. It is the tenth time in…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the December 10, 1995 Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Physicists believe that all matter, for example the matter in our own bodies, consists of quarks and leptons. Quarks are heavy, and leptons are light. There are two types of quarks,…