Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Per-Olov Löwdin of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in physics is shared equally between Philip Anderson, Sir Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck for their fundamental contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Carlson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, den 10 december 2006. Professor Per Carlson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Pristagare, mina damer och herrar, Blicka ut mot himlen en stjärnklar kväll och fascineras över det kosmiska skådespel som…

Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Cederblom, President of , on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has decided that the Nobel Prize for Physics for the present year is to be awarded to Lord Rayleigh, Professor at the Royal Institution, London, for his investigations on…

Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor Lev Davidovic Landau at Moscow University, was born in Baku, 1908. His mathematical talents appeared at a very early age and at the age of 14 he began…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sune Svanberg of the , December 10, 2001. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Sune Svanberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Three quarters of a century ago,…

  Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The discoveries by Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer and Hans Jensen for which this year’s Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded, concern the theory of the atomic nuclei and the…

Presentation Speech by Professor Per Carlson of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Per Carlson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Does the slow gravitational contraction of the sun produce…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Ising, member of Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the Nobel Prize for Physics may be awarded for “discovery or invention in the field of physics”. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in awarding this years’ prize to Professor P.M.S. Blackett of Manchester,…

Presentation Speech by Professor B. Edlén, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for physics is in this year given for the invention of the maser and the laser. “Maser” stands for “microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”, and the word “laser” is obtained by replacing “microwave”…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Carlson, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee in Physics, December 10, 2006. Professor Per Carlson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. Gaze into the sky…