Physics
James Franck – Biographical
Biographical
James Franck was born on August 26, 1882, in Hamburg, Germany. After attending the Wilhelm Gymnasium there, he studied mainly chemistry for a year at the University of Heidelberg, and then studied physics at the University of Berlin, where his principal tutors were Emil Warburg and Paul Drude. He received his Ph.D. at Berlin in…
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Leon N. Cooper – Biographical
Biographical
Leon Cooper was born in 1930 in New York where he attended Columbia University (A.B. 1951; A.M. 1953; Ph.D. 1954). He became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1954-55) after which he was a research associate of Illinois (1955-57) and later an assistant professor at the Ohio State University (1957-58). Professor Cooper joined…
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Pressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 1997
Press release
Swedish 15 oktober 1997 har beslutat att utdela 1997 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University, Stanford, Kalifornien, USA, Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France och École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Frankrike, och Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, för utveckling av metoder att kyla…
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