Nobel Prize

Carl David Anderson, who was born of Swedish parents – his father was Carl David Anderson and his mother Emma Adolfina Ajaxson – in New York City (USA) on 3rd September, 1905, has spent the bulk of his life in the United States. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1927 with a…

Presentation Speech by Prof. H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1936 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The year 1895 is a turning-point in the history of physics: Röntgen discovered the rays that were to be called after him, and this was rapidly followed by…