Physics

Banquet speech

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: A dinner speech is harder for me than a lecture. Therefore, I will simply share with you some of the feelings and thoughts I have had about this Nobel week. At first, upon learning that we have become Nobel Laureates there is a feeling…

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Banquet speech

Val Fitch’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Earlier today Professor Ekspong described our research which showed a basic lack of symmetry between matter and antimatter, world and antiworld. He observed that, if from some remote stellar region an alien space craft comes to visit,…

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