Physics

Award ceremony speech

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…

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Press release

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…

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Award ceremony speech

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…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004             The Standard Model and the four forces The quarks and gluons of the strong (or colour) force are the third piece in the puzzle of nature’s four forces. The first piece, the electromagnetic force, is similar to the strong force but instead…

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Press release

Swedish har beslutat att utdela 1995 års Nobelpris i fysik för banbrytande experimentella insatser inom leptonfysiken med ena hälften till Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, Kalifornien, USA för upptäckten av tauonen och med andra hälften till Frederick Reines, University of California, Irvine, Kalifornien, USA för påvisandet av neutrinon. Upptäckterna av två av naturens småpartiklar…

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Biographical

William Lawrence Bragg, son of William Henry Bragg, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on March 31, 1890. He received his early education at St. Peter’s College in his birthplace, proceeding to Adelaide University to take his degree in mathematics with first-class honours in 1908. He came to England with his father in 1909 and…

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