2006
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 Editors: Ulrika Björkstén, The Nobel Museum, Joakim Edsjö, Stockholm University, Mark Pearce, The Royal Institute of Technology, Per Carlson, chairperson of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Lars Bergström, secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Helena Enstedt and Malin Lindgren, The Royal…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 Contents: | | | | | | | | Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web AB.
moreDetermining differences in temperature
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The DMR – Differential Microwave Radiometer – collected and compared microwave background radiation from different directions on the sky. These temperature differences can be visualised on a map of the heavens. Contents: | | | | | | | | Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. Contents: | | | | | | | | …
moreDetecting microwaves
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 FIRAS – Far Infrared Absolute Spectrometer – was the instrument on board COBE that registered the blackbody spectrum of the microwave background radiation. The radiation lies in the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum and has a wavelength of only a few millimeters. The…
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