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Presentation Speech by the former Rector of the National Archives C.T. Odhner, President of , on December 10, 1901 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences received from Alfred Nobel the privilege of awarding two of the great Prizes which he founded in his will – the Prizes in those…

Presentation Speech by Dr. A.G. Ekstrand, President of , on June 1, 1920 Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize for Physics, for the year 1918, to Geheimrat Dr. Max Planck, professor at Berlin University, for his work on the establishment and development of the theory of…

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…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004      Earlier Nobel Laureates whose work was of great consequence for this year’s award:     Contents: |  |  |   |  |  |  |  |  | |   Web Adapted Version of the Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Arthur Holly Compton was born at Wooster, Ohio, on September 10th, 1892, the son of Elias Compton, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College of Wooster. He was educated at the College, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1913, and he spent three years in postgraduate study at Princeton University receiving his M.A. degree in…

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