Nobel Prize

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”…

Presentation Speech by Professor O. Klein, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics – to professor Hans A. Bethe – concerns an old riddle. How has it been possible for the sun to emit light and heat without exhausting its source not only during the…

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 Stig Lundqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1973 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Drs. Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for their discoveries of tunnelling phenomena in solids. The tunnelling phenomena belong to the most…

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…

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 Cecilia Jarlskog of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Cecilia Jarlskog delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Everything is made up of water,” Thales told us…

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…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Joseph Nordgren, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2009 Professor Joseph Nordgren delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Delsing, Member of the , 10 December 2010 Professor Per Delsing delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for research concerning a…