Physics

Interview

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…

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Banquet speech

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…

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Banquet speech

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…

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Banquet speech

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The award of a Nobel Prize carries with it so much distinction and the number of competing areas and discoveries are so many, that it must of necessity have a sobering effect on an individual who receives…

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