Nobel Prize

English 10 October 2011 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2011 to Thomas J. Sargent New York University, New York, NY, USA and Christopher A. Sims Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy” How are…

The Laureates Thomas J. Sargent, New York University, New York, NY, USA. Christopher A. Sims, Harold H. Helm ’20 Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Interviews Evans G.W. and Honkapohja S. (2005) An Interview with Thomas Sargent, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 9, 561–583. Hansen, L.P. (2004) An Interview with Christopher A. Sims,…

English 5 October 2011 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Dan Shechtman Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “for the discovery of quasicrystals” A remarkable mosaic of atoms In quasicrystals, we find the fascinating mosaics of the Arabic world reproduced at the level of atoms: regular patterns…

Websites Shechtman, D., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, http://materials.technion.ac.il/shechtman.html Lifshitz, R., Introduction to quasicrystals, Interviews and lectures (video and slide show) Shechtman, D. (2010) Quasicrystals, a new form of matter, Senechal, M. (2011) Quasicrystals gifts to mathematics, Steurer, W. (2011) Fascinating quasicrystals, Steinhardt, P.J., What are quasicrystals?, http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~steinh/QuasiIntro.ppt Popular science articles Shtull-Trauring, A. (2011)…

5 oktober 2011 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2011 till Dan Shechtman Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “för upptäckten av kvasikristaller” Märklig mosaik i materiens inre I kvasikristaller återfinns arabvärldens fascinerande mosaiker på atomnivå: regelbundna mönster som aldrig upprepar sig. Upptäckten av kvasikristaller stred mot all logik, och Dan Shechtman…

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Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Excellencies Ladies and Gentlemen FRIENDS! On behalf of my husband, Tomas Tranströmer, I want you to know how honored and how moved he is to receive the Nobel Prize. Thank you Swedish Academy: thank you for your courage and your beautiful prize citation. Special thanks to all…

Five Poems by Tomas Tranströmer English Allegro I play Haydn after a black day and feel a simple warmth in my hands. The keys are willing. Soft hammers strike. The resonance green, lively and calm. The music says freedom exists and someone doesn’t pay the emperor tax. I push down my hands in my Haydnpockets…

Read the introduction by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Programme of Texts English © Tomas Tranströmer, Albert Bonniers Förlag. © Tomas Tranströmer, Bloodaxe Books Ltd. Publication in periodicals or books requires the consent of the author and the publisher, Albert Bonniers Förlag, and for the English translation, Bloodaxe Books…

Artist: John Stenborg Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Book binder: Ingemar Dackéus Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom