Physics

Prize announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISKY4T-38cI Announcement of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 8 October 2019. Interview about the awarded work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejdfu1r3H90&feature=youtu.be “This is a discovery of the universe, in a sense” Immediately after the announcement on 8 October 2019, Professor Ulf Danielsson, Member…

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Press release

English 8 October 2019 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos” with one half to James PeeblesPrinceton University, USA “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half jointly to Michel MayorUniversity of Geneva,…

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Press release

Swedish 8 oktober 2019 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2019 ”för bidrag till vår förståelse av universums utveckling och jordens plats i universum” med ena hälften till James PeeblesPrinceton University, USA “för teoretiska upptäckter inom fysikalisk kosmologi” och med andra hälften gemensamt till Michel MayorUniversité de Genève, Schweiz och Didier QuelozUniversité de Genève, SchweizUniversity…

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With numerous new technologies it became possible to look rapidly at many stars and analyse the results on site. Optical fibres could carry the starlight without distorting it and better digital image sensors, increased the machine’s light sensitivity. More powerful computers allowed scientists to develop custom-made software for digital image and data processing.

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