Nobel Prize

  Birth Date: December 13, 1923, Indianapolis, Indiana. B.S. summa cum laude Harvard, ’43; MA ’47, PhD ’49, MA (Cantab) ’67. M. 1947, Joyce Gothwaite, d. Susan Osborne b. 1948. Naval Research Lab. 1943-5 (Chief Spec. X, USNR 1944-5) Bell Tel Labs. 1949-53, 1954-; Memb. Tech. Staff to 1959, Dept. Head 1959-61, MTS 1961-74, Asst.…

John H. Van Vleck’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the three recipients of the award in physics may I express our deepest gratitude and appreciation. May I add that it is a personal satisfaction to me to be sharing the award…

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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1978 The Origin of Elements Pdf 105 kB

  Career Profile 1998–current: Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates 1998: Retired from Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs 1996–1998: Vice President & Chief Scientist, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations 1995–1996: Vice President & Chief Scientist, AT&T Bell Laboratories 1981–1995: Vice President Research 1979–1981: Executive Director, Communications Sciences Research Division 1976–1979: Director, Radio Research Laboratory 1972–1976: Head, Radio…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1978 The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Pdf 385 kB

Arno Penzias’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1978 Students of Stockholm, During the past few days a number of things both great and small, have happened to me for the first time in my life. One of these “firsts” is to be asked to begin a speech to the sound of trumpets and…

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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.…