Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Ph.D., of the (Translation) The recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, the Japanese Yasunari Kawabata, was born in 1899 in the big industrial town of Osaka, where his father was a highly-cultured doctor with literary interests. At an early age, however, he was deprived of this favourable growing-up…

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Yasunari Kawabata, son of a highly-cultivated physician, was born in 1899 in Osaka. After the early death of his parents he was raised in the country by his maternal grandfather and attended the Japanese public school. From 1920 to 1924, Kawabata studied at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he received his degree. He was one…

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Luis W. Alvarez was born in San Francisco, Calif., on June 13, 1911. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Chicago in 1932, a M.Sc. in 1934, and his Ph.D. in 1936. Dr. Alvarez joined the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, where he is now a professor, as a research fellow in…

Presentation Speech by Professor S. von Friesen, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The science of physics has as its function the study of energy in all its forms. observed that matter, or mass, is one of the forms in which energy manifests itself. This fact was established experimentally 35…