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English 5 October 2004 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004 “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction” jointly to David J. Gross Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, H. David Politzer California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA, and…

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English The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 The discovery which is awarded this year’s Nobel Prize is of decisive importance for our understanding of how the theory of one of Nature’s fundamental forces works, the force that ties together the smallest pieces of matter – the quarks. David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek have…

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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…

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  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  

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Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 5 oktober 2004 Upptäckten som belönas med årets Nobelpris i fysik är avgörande för teorin om hur en av naturens fundamentala krafter fungerar, den som binder ihop materiens allra minsta kända beståndsdelar, kvarkarna. David Gross, David Politzer och Frank Wilczek har genom sina teoretiska insatser gjort det möjligt att lägga sista pusselbiten…

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Award ceremony speech

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Brink, ledamot av , i Stockholms Konserthus 10 december 2004. Professor Lars Brink presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2004 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, När Isaac Newton såg äpplet falla förstod han hur tyngdkraften verkar, och han kunde formulera en lag för…

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