Physics
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , December 10, 1927 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago for the discovery of the phenomenon named…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics to Georges Charpak for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. Georges Charpak CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
moreJ.J. Thomson – Biographical
Biographical
Joseph John Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, a suburb of Manchester on December 18, 1856. He enrolled at Owens College, Manchester, in 1870, and in 1876 entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a minor scholar. He became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1880, when he was Second Wrangler and Second Smith’s Prizeman, and he…
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Felix Bloch – Biographical
Biographical
Felix Bloch was born in Zurich, Switzerland, on October 23, 1905, as the son of Gustav Bloch and Agnes Bloch (née Mayer). From 1912 to 1918 he attended the public primary school and subsequently the “Gymnasium” of the Canton of Zurich, which he left in the fall of 1924 after having passed the “Matura”, i.e.…
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H. David Politzer – Biographical
Biographical
