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Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye was born March 24, 1884, at Maastricht, the Netherlands. He received his early education at the elementary and secondary schools in his home town and from then on his life has been devoted to a search for knowledge. He continued his studies at the Aachen Institute of Technology (Technische Hochschule)…

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Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1936 Eugene O’Neill’s dramatic production has been of a sombre character from the very first, and for him life as a whole quite early came to signify tragedy. This has been attributed to the bitter experiences of his youth, more especially to…

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Victor Franz Hess was born on the 24th of June, 1883, in Waldstein Castle, near Peggau in Steiermark, Austria. His father, Vinzens Hess, was a forester in Prince Öttingen-Wallerstein’s service and his mother was Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt. He received his entire education in Graz: Gymnasium (1893-1901), and afterwards Graz University (1901-1905), where he took…

Carl David Anderson, who was born of Swedish parents – his father was Carl David Anderson and his mother Emma Adolfina Ajaxson – in New York City (USA) on 3rd September, 1905, has spent the bulk of his life in the United States. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1927 with a…

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Presentation Speech by Prof. H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1936 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The year 1895 is a turning-point in the history of physics: Röntgen discovered the rays that were to be called after him, and this was rapidly followed by…