Physics

Banquet speech

Klaus von Klitzing’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is difficult to find some new words to express the feelings of a Nobel prize winner at this occasion. I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift…

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Interview

Interview transcript Welcome, very nice to see you, professor Klitzing. It was back in 1985 you received the Nobel Prize. I just would like to start off by asking you how did you go about it, when you had this hypothesis and you wanted to prove it? How long time did it…

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Banquet speech

K. Alex Müller’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen Despite the announcement in my mother language, you just heard, I choose to speak in English, with a heavy Swiss accent as a newspaper man had it. Georg Bednorz and I work at the IBM Laboratory…

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