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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…

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Nobel Lecture, June 3, 1920 Concerning the Detection of X-ray Interferences Pdf 118 kB

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17 October 1978 has decided to award the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics in two equal parts: one to Professor Piotr Leontevitch Kapitsa, Institute of Physical Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics; and the other, to be shared equally between Dr Arno A.…

October 1972 The Nobel Prize in physics will be shared between the following American physicists: JOHN BARDEEN, born 1908, professor of electrical engineering and physics at the University of Illinois Urbana. LEON N. COOPER, born 1930, professor of physics at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. JOHN ROBERT SCHRIEFFER, born 1931, professor of physics at the…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1946 The Method of Molecular Rays Pdf 58 kB