Physics

Banquet speech

Willis E. Lamb’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a privilege, an honor and a pleasure to be here tonight. I would like to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Science for considering me worthy of their great award. At the…

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Banquet speech

Polykarp Kusch’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, No previous experience in life has given me the same sense of humility as the present one. This feeling is inevitable in view of the many illustrious names which adorn the roll of those whom…

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Biographical

Il’ja Mikhailovich Frank was born in Leningrad on October 23, 1908, the younger son of Mikhail Lyudvigovic Frank, a Professor of Mathematics, and his wife, Dr. Yelizaveta Mikhailovna Gratsianova. He attended the Moscow State University as a pupil of Vavilov, and graduated in 1930. In 1931 he became a senior scientific officer in Professor A.N.…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1958 Radiation of Particles Moving at a Velocity Exceeding That of Light, and Some of the Possibilities for Their Use in Experimental Physics Pdf 222 kB

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