Physics

Prize presentation

https://www.youtube.com/embed/AjdBJ1uFjO0 Watch a video clip of the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, Klaus Hasselmann, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma from Ambassador Per Thöresson during a ceremonial presentation at Harnack House, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in Berlin, Germany on 7 December 2021.

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Prize presentation

https://www.youtube.com/embed/i2Jk7UUGI2c Watch a video clip of the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, Giorgio Parisi, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma from Ambassador Jan Björklund during a ceremonial presentation at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy on 6 December 2021.

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Prize presentation

https://www.youtube.com/embed/oiQ8xVXaUEw Watch a video clip of the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, Syukuro Manabe, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma from Ambassador Karin Olofsdotter during a ceremonial presentation at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC, US on 6 December 2021.

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Biographical

Biography* My family, childhood and education I was born in 1942 in Lausanne, Switzerland, a small town along Lake Leman where I started elementary school. My father was a police commissioner with positions in different cities. When I was six years old, my family moved to Cully, a superb village in the vineyards along the…

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Biographical

Didier Queloz is a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory and professor of astronomy at the University of Geneva (part time). He is one of the originators of the “exoplanet revolution” in astrophysics. In 1995, as part of his PhD, he and his supervisor announced the first discovery of a giant…

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Biographical

My impression is that each of us is born with distinct personal char­acteristics. It seems quite observable in our three daughters, and I think I see it in myself. I believe I was born to be a physicist of the kind who may be a little weak on the mathematics but has some sort of…

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In co-production with the BBC, we are happy and proud to introduce a series of podcast episodes highlighting inspiring work done by members of future generations. The series hopes to showcast our future generation that is walking in the footsteps of the Nobel Prize laureates using innovative and new ways of thinking. ‘Generation Change’ is…

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Award ceremony video

https://www.youtube.com/embed/PgekkKn7zmU Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 2020. This year, the award ceremony was streamed. The laureates had received their medals and diplomas in their home countries due to the covid-19 pandemic.

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