2007

Nobel Lecture

English December 7, 2007 On not winning the Nobel Prize I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in ’56, there was…

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Biographical

I was born on 10 October 1936 in Bad Cannstatt which is part of the city of Stuttgart in the southwest of Germany. When I was 3 years old, the family moved to the nearby village of Schmiden where I entered elementary school in 1942. In summer 1946, I was admitted to Johannes Kepler Gymnasium…

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Other resources

Links to other sites Videos Al Gore: ‘What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?’ from TED Talks. Al Gore: ‘New thinking on the climate crisis’ from TED Talks. Al Gore: ‘Averting the climate crisis ‘ from TED Talks.

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Interview

Nobel Prize Talks: Eric S. Maskin Released 2014-03-20 To master modeling is an art, says Eric Maskin. In this conversation recorded on location during a Nobel Media event in Rio de Janeiro, the 2007 Laureate in Economic Sciences explains how models can be applied to help tackle societal issues such as income inequality. He also…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 More information about the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 can be found on: ● ● ● ● Kopplung macht den Wiederstand by Peter Grünberg, Physik Journal 9/2007 ● Giant steps with tiny magnets by Agnes Barthélémy and Albert Fert et al, Physics World Nov. 1994 ● Spintronics by…

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Press release

Swedish 10 oktober 2007 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2007 till Gerhard Ertl Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Tyskland “för hans studier av kemiska processer på fasta ytor”. Modern ytkemi – bränsleceller, konstgödsel och avgasrening Årets kemipris belönar grundläggande arbeten inom yt­kemin. Denna vetenskap är viktig för den kemiska industrin och kan hjälpa oss…

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