Nobel Prize

English 7 October 2014 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan Hiroshi Amano Nagoya University, Japan and Shuji Nakamura University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving…

English 4 October 2011 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 with one half to Saul Perlmutter The Supernova Cosmology Project Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt The High-z Supernova Search Team Australian National University, Weston Creek,…

English 8 October 2013 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013 to François Englert Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Peter W. HiggsUniversity of Edinburgh, UK “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was…

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A typical question I am often asked as a Nobel Laureate in physics is “what brought you to physics?” I am not sure but I do know that in school in geography when looking at the presentations of the planets orbiting around the sun I asked myself: “What is the reason for this strange behavior?”…

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Interview, December 2017 https://youtu.be/l9-iPfRb9TI Interview with Physics Laureate Barry C. Barish on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Barry C. Barish answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – How did you become interested in Physics? – Who has inspired you? – How important is mentoring?…

Interview, December 2017 https://youtu.be/CVovLIjOsL4 Interview with the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics Kip S. Thorne on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Kip S. Thorne answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Why did you decide to become a physicist? – What do you enjoy…