Nobel Prize

15 October 1979 has decided to award the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics to be shared equally between Professor Sheldon L. Glashow, Harvard University, USA, Professor Abdus Salam, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy and Imperial College, Great Britain, and Professor Steven Weinberg, Harvard University, USA, for their contributions to the theory of the unified…

14 October 1980 has decided to award the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor James W. Cronin, University of Chicago, USA and Professor Val L. Fitch, Princeton University, USA, for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons. Symmetries play a great role in many sciences and also…

16 October 1985 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1985 to Professor Klaus von Klitzing, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany, for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect. Summary When an electric current passes through a metal strip there is normally no difference in potential across…

English 9 October 2007 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 jointly to Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, and Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”. Nanotechnology gives sensitive read-out heads for compact hard disks This year’s physics prize is awarded…

15 October 1986 has decided to award the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half to Professor. Ernst Ruska, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope and the other half, jointly to Dr Gerd Binnig and Dr…

15 October 1974 has awarded Professor Martin Ryle and Professor Antony Hewish the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professors Ryle and Hewish have been awarded the Prize for their pioneering research in radioastrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture-synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of…

16 October 1991 has decided to award the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, College de France, Paris, France for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymer. Order and disorder in…

English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University, California, USA, Professor Horst L. Störmer, Columbia University, New York and Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA, and Professor Daniel C. Tsui, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The three researchers are being awarded…

French le 7 octobre 2003 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Physique pour l’année 2003, «pour des travaux pionniers dans le domaine théorique des supraconducteurs et des suprafluides» collectivement à Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, États-Unis, Vitaly L. Ginzburg Institut de Physique P.N. Lebedev, Moscou, Russie, et Anthony J. Leggett University…

German 7. Oktober 2003 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2003 in Physik „für bahnbrechende Arbeiten in der Theorie über Supraleiter und Supraflüssigkeiten“ gemeinsam zu verleihen an Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, U.S.A., Vitaly L. Ginzburg P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moskau, Russland, und Anthony J. Leggett University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.…