Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor S. von Friesen, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The science of physics has as its function the study of energy in all its forms. observed that matter, or mass, is one of the forms in which energy manifests itself. This fact was established experimentally 35…

Speech by professor Erik Ingelstam of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our five senses give us knowledge of our surroundings, and nature herself has many available resources. The most obvious is light which gives us the possibility to see and to be pleased by colour and shape. Sound conveys the speech with…

Presentation Speech by Professor Tord Claeson of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Tord Claeson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Information technology (IT) influences our lives at many levels.…

Presentation Speech by professor Sven Johansson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the end of the 1940’s, nuclear physics had advanced to a stage where a more detailed picture of the structure of the atomic nucleus was beginning to emerge and it was becoming possible…

Presentation Speech by Professor Lamek Hulthén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s prize is shared between Peter Leonidovitj Kapitza, Moscow, “for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics” and Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindgren of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is shared between three scientists, Professor Norman Ramsey, Harvard University, Professor Hans Dehmelt, University of Washington, Seattle, and Professor Wolfgang Paul, University of Bonn, for “contributions of importance…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the . Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, The air that we breathe not only contains oxygen and nitrogen, but also small quantities of other gases. One of these – often mentioned in connection with the global greenhouse effect – is…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Stenholm, Member of the , December 10, 2005. Professor Stig Stenholm delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, We live in a world of light. We experience our surroundings by…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Professor Lars Brink, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2008 Professor Lars Brink delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, “The Earth is round.”…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Stig Stenholm, ledamot av , den 10 december 2005. Professor Stig Stenholm presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Vi lever i en värld av ljus. Vi upplever omvärlden genom synen. Likaså ger ljuset från de avlägsnaste galaxerna kunskap…