Nobel Prize

Interview transcript Professor, very nice to meet you. It has been a few years since you received the Nobel Prize in 1973. Leo Esaki: That’s right. I would like to start off by asking you what made you interested in physics at the very beginning. Why did you choose that subject? Leo…

Antony Hewish’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The world of man lies midway in scale between the inner space of atoms and particles, and the outer space of stars and galaxies. The exploration of both these regions stretches our imagination to its limits. In…

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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1975 Elementary Modes of Excitation in the Nucleus Pdf 176 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1975 Background for the Spheroidal Nuclear Model Proposal Pdf 210 kB

Aage N. Bohr’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Dear Students! On behalf of all the laureates assembled here today, I have the great pleasure to express our thanks for your kind words and beautiful songs, worthy of the great traditions of Swedish student life.…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1975 Rotational Motion in Nuclei Pdf 614 kB

Ben R. Mottelson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an overwhelming experience to participate in the great drama that has been created out of Alfred Nobel’s idealism and vision of science. The performance today reflects the unsparing efforts of our hosts in their…