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The Name The name Thouless is very rare. Fewer than 150 people with the name live in Britain, almost all of whom are connected to Norwich. This is because it is a relatively new spelling of an old name spelt variously Thules, Thewless, Thewlis etc. Five generations before David, his ancestor John was born Thules.…

Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Exellencies Dear Laureates, Students, Ladies and gentlemen, Today I am speaking for Prof. Kajita and our two scientific Collaborations, SuperKamiokande and SNO, of which there are a number of representatives here with us today. We would like to express our profound thanks to your Majesties, to the…

I was born on March 9, 1959, in Higashi-Matsuyama, a small city located about an hour’s train ride north of Tokyo. My house was located in the countryside, surrounded by rice fields on the north, east, and south. I grew up in such a peaceful environment. I went to Kawagoe High School, a rather typical…

I was born on September 11th 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco, in a Jewish family with mixed Sephardic and Ashkenazi origins. My father’s parents were teachers at the Alliance Israëlite universelle (AIU), which operated a network of schools dedicated to the dissemination of French language and culture throughout Jewish communities in North African and Mid-Eastern countries.…

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Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physics, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication” and the other half…

The Nobel Laureates Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong Willard S. Boyle, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA   Popular science Smith, G.E. (2009) The invention and early history of the CCD. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Olga Botner, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 december 2017 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar Tyngdkraften även kallad gravitationen är den svagaste kraft vi känner till…