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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 This year’s Laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter exists in strange states. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 is awarded with one half to David J. Thouless, University of Washington, Seattle, and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane, Princeton University, and J. Michael…

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Swedish 6 oktober 2015 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2015 till Takaaki Kajita Super-Kamiokande Collaboration University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan och Arthur B. McDonald Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration Queen’s University, Kingston, Kanada ”för upptäckten av neutrinooscillationer, som visar att neutriner har massa” Förvandlingskonster i partikelvärlden Takaaki Kajita i Japan och Arthur B. McDonald i…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 They solved the neutrino puzzle and opened a new realm in particle physics. Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald were key scientists of two large research groups, Super-Kamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which discovered the neutrinos mid-flight metamorphosis. The chameleons of space The hunt was on – deep inside…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 Blue LEDs – Filling the world with new light Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura are rewarded for inventing a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source – the blue light-emitting diode (LED). In the spirit of Alfred Nobel, the Prize awards an invention of greatest benefit to mankind;…

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Banquet speech

Paul A.M. Dirac’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1933 I should like to thank you all very much for the great honour you have done to me, and the kindness you have shown me, which I hardly feel I deserve. I think that in replying on an occasion like this one…

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Banquet speech

Erwin Schrödinger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1933 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten! Meine Damen und Herren! Es gibt Dinge im Leben, die man nicht durch Erfahrung lernen kann, sondern gleich das erste Mal richtig treffen muss. Und trifft man es nicht, so hat man keine Gelegenheit, den Fehler beim zweiten Mal…

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