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 , member of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Surely we all have often admired the beautiful white streaks which are left against the blue heaven by a highflying jet airplane. These streaks are made up of very small, finely divided waterdrops which have been condensed into a cloud…

14 October 1992 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1992 to Professor Georges Charpak, France, École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie, Paris and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. A breakthrough in the technique for exploring the innermost parts of…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Georges Charpak, France, for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. It is the tenth time in…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004             A unified theory for all forces? This year’s prize paves the way for a more fundamental future description of the forces in nature. The electromagnetic, weak and strong forces have much in common and are perhaps different aspects of a single force.…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, receives the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the tau lepton. Frederick Reines, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, receives the Nobel Prize for the detection…

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