Nobel Prize

The Scientific Contributions of Robert E. Lucas, Jr. October 1995 During the 1970s macroeconomics was rapidly and thoroughly transformed: the rational expectations hypothesis was developed and applied, an equilibrium theory of business cycles emerged, and the problems in macroeconometric evaluation of economic policy and their solutions were clarified. This evolution is mostly due to the…

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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1995 Reflections on the Discovery of the Tau Lepton Pdf 393 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1995 The Neutrino: From Poltergeist to Particle Pdf 367 kB

Martin L. Perl’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1995 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my companion in the world of lepton physics, Frederick Reines, and myself I want to express our gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for being honored for…

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Interview transcript Eric F. Wieschaus: The mixed feeling about being at a place because you’re a Nobel Laureate, meaning being carted in because you’re on display and it doesn’t really have that quality quite, but you would much more like appreciative people wanting to talk with you because you had something interesting…

Born May 20, 1918, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA   Address: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, 156-29, Pasadena, California 91125, USA   Academic Education 1939 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, B.A. (Biostatistics) 1942 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Ph.D. (Genetics) 1943 California Institute of Technology, M.S. (Meteorology)   Appointments and Professional Activities 1947-48 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow,…