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English Bioibliographical notes John Maxwell Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town in South Africa. His background is both German and English. His parents sent him to an English school and he grew up using English as his first language. At the beginning of the 1960s he moved to England where he worked initially…

John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 9 February 1940, the elder of two children. His mother was a primary school teacher. His father was trained as an attorney, but practiced as such only intermittently; during the years 1941–45 he served with the South African forces in North Africa and Italy.…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003           Two types of superconductors Type-I superconductors are characterised by a total so-called Meissner effect. This means that the superconductor completely expels a magnetic field. If the magnetic field becomes too strong, the superconductive property disappears abruptly. But there are other superconductors, often alloys,…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003   Contents: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |   Web Adapted Version of the Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 jointly to Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett for “pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids”.     This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards…

Presentation Speech by Professor Mats Jonson of the , December 10, 2003. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Mats Jonson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is all about…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003           Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA   Landau’s pupil, Alexei Abrikosov, realised almost immediately that Ginzburg and Landau’s theory can also describe those superconductors (type II) that can coexist with strong magnetic fields. According to Abrikosov’s theory this occurs because…