Physics
Pressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2004
Press release
Swedish 5 oktober 2004 har beslutat utdela 2004 års Nobelpris i fysik “för upptäckten av asymptotisk frihet i teorin för den starka växelverkan” gemensamt till David J. GrossKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics vid University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, H. David PolitzerCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA, och Frank WilczekMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1942
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreJerome I. Friedman – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 28, 1930, the second of two children of Selig and Lillian Friedman, nee Warsaw, who were immigrants from Russia. My father came to the United States in 1913 and later served in the U.S. Army Artillery Corps in World War I. After the war he was employed…
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Manne Siegbahn – Biographical
Biographical
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn was born on the 3rd of December, 1886, at Örebro in Sweden. His father was Nils Reinhold Georg Siegbahn, a stationmaster of the State Railways, and his mother was Emma Sofia Mathilda Zetterberg. After receiving a high-school education he entered the University of Lund in 1906, where he obtained his doctor’s…
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John Bardeen – Biographical
Biographical
John Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin, May 23, 1908. He attended the University High School in Madison for several years, and graduated from Madison Central High School in 1923. This was followed by a course in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, where he took extra work in mathematics and physics. After being…
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Ernest Lawrence – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
