2006

Press release

Swedish 3 oktober 2006 har beslutat utdela 2006 års Nobelpris i Fysik gemensamt till John C. Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, och George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA “för upptäckten av den kosmiska bakgrundsstrålningens svartkroppsform och anisotropi”. Bilder från universums barndom Årets Fysikpris belönar arbeten som blickar tillbaka…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006     1915 1918 1922 1927 1929 1940s 1949 1978 1989   1915 publishes his general theory of relativity for gravity. 1918 awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the law of blackbody radiation using energy quanta. 1922 Alexander Friedmann discovers an expanding Universe in…

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Biographical

I was born on Aug. 7, 1946 in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city near Blacksburg where my father was a young faculty member at the school now called Virginia Tech. For some generations, my family on both sides has been populated with scientists and school teachers. My father, Robert E. Mather, was starting his research…

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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   Contents: |  |  |  |  |  |  | |   Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web AB.

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