Physics

Press release

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.…

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Press release

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…

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Banquet speech

Percy W. Bridgman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 It is my pleasant duty on behalf of my colleagues in physics, Messrs. and , as well as on my own behalf, to express our deep appreciation and gratitude for the high honor that has been bestowed upon us. It is, I…

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