Physics
Hannes Alfvén – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1970 Plasma Physics, Space Research and the Origin of the Solar System Pdf 53 kB
morePatrick M.S. Blackett – Biographical
Biographical
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…
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Nicolaas Bloembergen – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
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…
moreNicolaas Bloembergen – Biographical
Biographical
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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Max von Laue – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture