Nobel Prize

Interview transcript Transcript from an interview with Professor Georges Charpak, 1992 Nobel Laureate in Physics, on 6 December 2001. Interviewer is Joanna Rose, science writer. Professor Georges Charpak, welcome to Stockholm and to this Nobel interview. You are one of the very few French scientists who have been awarded a Nobel Prize.…

Swedish 12 October 1999 har utdelat 1999 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft, Utrecht Universitet, Utrecht, Nederländerna, och Professor emeritus Martinus J.G. Veltman, University of Michigan, USA, bosatt i Bilthoven, Nederländerna. De två forskarna Nobelprisbelönas för att ha satt partikelfysikens teori på fastare matematisk grund. De har speciellt visat hur teorin…

German 12 Oktober 1999 hat den Nobelpreis in Physik für das Jahr 1999 gemeinsam verliehen an Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft, Utrecht Universität, Utrecht, Niederlande, und Professor emeritus Martinus J.G. Veltman, Michigan Universität, USA, ansäßig in Bilthoven, Niederlande. Die beiden Forscher erhalten den Nobelpreis dafür, daß sie die Theorie der Elementarteilchenphysik auf festeren mathematischen Grund gestellt…

French 12 Octobre 1999 a attribué le Prix Nobel de Physique de l’année 1999 collectivement aux Professeur Gerardus ‘t Hooft, Université d’Utrecht, Utrecht, Pays-Bas, et Professeur émérite Martinus J.G. Veltman de University of Michigan, États-Unis, domicilié à Bilthoven, Pays-Bas. Les deux chercheurs reçoivent le Prix Nobel pour avoir fourni à la théorie de la physique…

English 12 October 1999 has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Professor Emeritus Martinus J. G. Veltman, University of Michigan, USA, resident in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. The two researchers are being awarded the Nobel Prize for having placed particle physics theory…

12 October 1994 has decided to award the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter with one half to Professor Bertram N. Brockhouse, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, for the development of neutron spectroscopy and one half to Professor Clifford G. Shull,…

Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 15 October 1997 has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards and…

Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics with one half to Professor Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA for the discovery of the tau lepton and with…

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Frits Zernike was born in Amsterdam, 16th July 1888, as the second son in a family of six children. His father, Carl Frederick August Zernike, was teacher in mathematics and head of a primary school in Amsterdam, and was a highly gifted man having interests in many branches of science; he compiled numerous elementary books…