2008
Osamu Shimomura – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
Roger Y. Tsien – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
Pressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i fysik 2008
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Swedish 7 oktober 2008 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2008 med ena hälften till Yoichiro NambuEnrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA “för upptäckten av mekanismen för spontant symmetribrott inom den subatomära fysiken” och med den andra hälften gemensamt till Makoto Kobayashi High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan och Toshihide MaskawaYukawa…
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Press release
English 7 October 2008 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to Yoichiro NambuEnrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics” and the other half jointly to Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),…
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The Nobel Laureates Yoichiro Nambu, University of Chicago, USA Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan Toshihide Maskawa, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Japan Earlier Nobel Prizes within the field Popular science articles Sarah Graham: “In Search of Antimatter”, Scientific American, August 2001. Helen Quinn & Michael Witherell: “The Asymmetry…
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Roger Y. Tsien – Biographical
Biographical
Q: What do elementary school pupils and Nobel Laureates have in common? A: They both have to write autobiographical essays on command. Ancestors and family My father, Hsue Chu Tsien (1915–1997), came from the “scholar-gentry” class in Hangzhou, China, where “Tsien” (now more commonly transliterated as Qian) is quite a common surname. Apparently in 907…
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