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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1978 Plasma and the Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction Pdf 124 kB

Pyotr Kapitsa’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1978 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I think I am not mistaken in believing that I am the oldest person who ever received the Nobel Prize. My first scientific publication of some significance was made in 1913 and since then for 65 years.…

Interview transcript Welcome to Stockholm, and to this Nobel interview, Professor Steven Weinberg. I have talked to some of your colleagues here, and everybody says that you’re the one to blame, or the one that brought light to the community of physicists when you wrote your book on cosmology in the early…

Abdus Salam’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my colleagues, Professor Glashow and Weinberg, I thank the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Academy of Sciences for the great honour and the courtesies extended to us, including the courtesy to me of being addressed in…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1979 Towards a Unified Theory – Threads in a Tapestry Pdf 59 kB

Date of birth: 29 January, 1926 Place of birth: Jhang, Pakistan Educational Career Government College, Jhang and Lahore (1938-1946) M.A. (Punjab University) Foundation Scholar, St. John’s College, Cambridge (1946- 1949) B.A. Honours Double first in Mathematics (Wrangler) and Physics Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1952) Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics Awarded Smith’s Prize by the University of Cambridge…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1979 Gauge Unification of Fundamental Forces Pdf 1.16 MB

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William A. Fowler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, My Fellow Students, Ladies and Gentlemen, You will note that my salutation includes my fellow students. Yes I am still a student. I even learned something from Professors Chandrasekhar and two days ago. I came to Caltech as a…