Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded **num_prize_phy** times to **num_award_phy** Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and **last_awarded_year_phy**. John Bardeen is the only laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of **num_laureate_phy** individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click…

Raymond Davis Jr’s experiments http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/neutrino.html http://chemfo.chm.bnl.gov/SciandTech/SN/default.htm Masatoshi Koshiba, Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html http://www.aip.org/png/html/super-k.htm Riccardo Giacconi, X-ray astronomy Associated Universities Inc. Introduction in English (pdf) Pictures from the Chandra Telescope NASA About the Satellite observatories “Exploring the Universe – A Festschrift in Honor of Riccardo Giacconi”. (H. Gursky & R. Ruffini, eds.) Rome, Italy,…

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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1970 Plasma Physics, Space Research and the Origin of the Solar System Pdf 53 kB

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett was born on 18th November, 1897, the son of Arthur Stuart Blackett. He was originally trained as a regular officer for the Navy (Osborne Naval College, 1917; Dartmouth, 1912), and started his career as a naval cadet (1914), taking part, during the First World War, in the battles of Falkland Islands…

Nicolaas Bloembergen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a privilege to address you on behalf of all three recipients of the 1981 Nobel award in physics. The reason that I have been chosen as spokesman is not clear; it would not be effective…

My parents, Auke Bloembergen and Sophia Maria Quint, had four sons and two daughters. I am the second child, born on March 11, 1920, in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. My father, a chemical engineer, was an executive in a chemical fertilizer company. My mother, who had an advanced degree to teach French, devoted all her energies…