Nobel Prize

Igor Y. Tamm’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1958 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Excellenser, Mina Damer och Herrar! Å mina och mina kollegers Cerenkov och Frank vägnar önskar jag uttrycka vår djupt kända tacksamhet för den stora ära, som vederfarits oss. Besides the feeling of an immense personal happiness, mixed…

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Presentation Speech by Professor J.P. Klason, President of , on December 10, 1906 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Every day that passes witnesses electricity obtaining an ever-increasing importance in practical life. The conceptions, which a few decades ago were the subject of investigation in the quiet studies or laboratories of sundry learned…

Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of the , on December 10, 1945 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Rutherford gave an impulse of fundamental importance to research in atomic structure when in 1911 he found that an essential part of an atom is a positively charged nucleus in which practically the whole…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 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, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek     David J. Gross Kavli Institute…

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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany, on April 23, 1858, the son of Julius Wilhelm and Emma (née Patzig) Planck. His father was Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Kiel, and later in Göttingen. Planck studied at the Universities of Munich and Berlin, where his teachers included Kirchhoff and…

Erwin Schrödinger was born on August 12, 1887, in Vienna, the only child of Rudolf Schrödinger, who was married to a daughter of Alexander Bauer, his Professor of Chemistry at the Technical College of Vienna. Erwin’s father came from a Bavarian family which generations before had settled in Vienna. He was a highly gifted man…

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was born in Vladivostok on July 8, 1895, as the son of Evgenij Tamm, an engineer, and Olga Davydova. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1918, specializing in physics, and immediately commenced an academic career in institutes of higher learning. He was progressively assistant, instructor, lecturer, and professor in charge of…