Nobel Prize

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 C.W. Oseen, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1926 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Nature can be physically explained in two ways. When a group of phenomena is to be understood, we can seek to deduce, on the basis of observations, general…

Presentation Speech by Professor K.B. Hasselberg, President of , on December 10, 1908 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1908 to Professor Gabriel Lippmann of the Sorbonne for his method, based on the phenomenon of interference, which permits the reproduction…

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , December 10, 1927 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago for the discovery of the phenomenon named…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The electrons of an atom move according to the laws of quantum mechanics established in 1925 and the next following years. For the hydrogen atom, which has only one electron and consequently is the simplest atom to investigate theoretically,…

Presentation Speech by former Councillor Th. Nordstrom, President of , on December 10, 1913 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. At its meeting on the 11th November the Royal Academy of Sciences decided to award the Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 1913 to Dr. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Professor at the University…

Presentation Speech by professor Stig Lundqvist, Chalmers University of Technology Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1972 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Drs John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper and J. Robert Schrieffer for their theory of superconductivity, usually referred to as the BCS-theory. Superconductivity is a…

  The following account of the work of the Braggs is by Professor G. Granqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of epoch-making discovery of the diffraction of the X-rays in crystals, on the one hand established wave motion as the essential quality of those rays and, on the other, afforded the experimental proof…