Nobel Prize

  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…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002           The Supernova 1987A Photo: The Anglo-Australian Observatory   What is a supernova? When the fusion reactions in a massive star end, it collapses and throws off its outer layers in a giant explosion. In just a few seconds, huge amounts of energy –…

Swedish 9 oktober 2001 har beslutat att utdela Nobelpriset i fysik år 2001 gemensamt till Eric A. CornellJILA och National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang KetterleMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, och Carl E. WiemanJILA och University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, “för uppnående av Bose-Einsteinkondensation i förtunnade…

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Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1937 The Discovery of Electron Waves Pdf 60 kB

Curriculum Vitae Name: KOSHIBA, Masatoshi. Date/Place of Birth: September 19, 1926/Toyohashi city, Aichi Pref., Japan. Nationality: Japanese. Marital status: Married to Kyoko KATO on October 5, 1959, in Tokyo. Permanent address: 4-11-7 Shimoigusa, Suginami, Tokyo 167-0022 Japan. Tel/Fax: 81-3-3396-6868, e-mail: [email protected]. Education Mar. 1951: Graduated from University of Tokyo, physics major. Apr. ’51 to Mar.…

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Presentation Speech by Professor G. Ising, member of Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the Nobel Prize for Physics may be awarded for “discovery or invention in the field of physics”. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in awarding this years’ prize to Professor P.M.S. Blackett of Manchester,…

Presentation Speech by Professor B. Edlén, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for physics is in this year given for the invention of the maser and the laser. “Maser” stands for “microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”, and the word “laser” is obtained by replacing “microwave”…