Physics
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor K.B. Hasselberg, President of , on December 10, 1908 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1908 to Professor Gabriel Lippmann of the Sorbonne for his method, based on the phenomenon of interference, which permits the reproduction…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor C.W. Oseen, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1926 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Physics Nobel Prize for the year 1925 has been awarded to Professor James Franck and Professor Gustav Hertz for their discovery of the laws governing the impact…
morePaul A.M. Dirac – Biographical
Biographical
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born on 8th August, 1902, at Bristol, England, his father being Swiss and his mother English. He was educated at the Merchant Venturer’s Secondary School, Bristol, then went on to Bristol University. Here, he studied electrical engineering, obtaining the B.Sc. (Engineering) degree in 1921. He then studied mathematics for two…
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