Nobel Prize

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 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…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindgren of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel prize in physics is shared between three scientists – Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow, both from the United States, and Kai Siegbahn from Sweden – for their contributions to the development…

Presentation Speech by Professor Cecilia Jarlskog of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, One of the most important tasks of physics is to provide us with a clearer picture of the world we live in. We know that the observable universe is much larger than any of…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Georges Charpak, France, for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. It is the tenth time in…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the December 10, 1995 Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Physicists believe that all matter, for example the matter in our own bodies, consists of quarks and leptons. Quarks are heavy, and leptons are light. There are two types of quarks,…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Brink of the , December 10, 2004. Professor Lars Brink delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When Isaac Newton saw the apple fall he understood how gravity works and…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Brink, ledamot av , i Stockholms Konserthus 10 december 2004. Professor Lars Brink presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2004 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, När Isaac Newton såg äpplet falla förstod han hur tyngdkraften verkar, och han kunde formulera en lag för…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nagel of the , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics jointly to three physicists for “development of methods to cool and trap atoms with…