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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…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004             The strong force Many tried but failed, to find a theory in which the strength of the strong force decreases as the energy increases. This year’s Nobel Laureates produced a theory with the required minus sign.       Contents: |  |  |   |  |  |  | …

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born at Arnhem, The Netherlands, on July 18, 1853, as the son of nursery-owner Gerrit Frederik Lorentz and his wife née Geertruida van Ginkel. When he was four years old, his mother died, and in 1862 his father married Luberta Hupkes. In those days the grade school did not only have…

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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…

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…

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…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004     Further reading QCD Made Simple, Physics Today August 2000, p. 22 Joining up the dots with the strong force, by C. Davies, CERN Courier June 2004, p. 23 The W and Z at LEP, by C. Stutton and P. Zerwas, Cern Courier May 2004, p. 21…