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Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the early years of nuclear physics
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The first third of the 20th century was a period of major revolutionary developments in physics. It began with d tearing down the reigning paradigm of Newtonian physics. Milestones in experimental work on the atom by the likes of , Hans Geiger, and soon followed. During the 1920s, , , , , and others laid…
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by Stig Fredrikson This article was published on 22 February 2006. How I helped Alexandr Solzhenitsyn smuggle his Nobel Lecture from the USSR A controversial Nobel Prize When was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was already an outcast in his native country, the Soviet Union. After the novel “One Day in…
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by Ivar Libæk The International Committee of the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in , and – on the third occasion jointly with the League of Red Cross Societies. This makes the Red Cross unique: no recipient has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as often as this organisation. The very first…
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Tagore and his India by This article was published on 28 August 2001. Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s…
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by Kjell Espmark Nobel’s will and the Literature Prize Among the five prizes provided for in (1895), one was intended for the person who, in the literary field, had produced “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”. The Laureate should be determined by “the Academy in Stockholm”, which was specified by the statutes of…
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by Øyvind Tønnesson Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000 The Nobel Peace Prize has frequently caused controversy. One reason is that many Laureates have been contemporary and highly controversial political actors, another is that the Prizes in many instances, have increased public focus on international or national conflicts. In the latter case, the awards have often been…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The development of modern chemistry
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by Bo G. Malmström and Bertil Andersson* 1. Introduction 1.1 Chemistry at the borders to physics and biology The turn of the century 1900 was also a turning point in the history of chemistry. Consequently, a survey of the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry during this century will provide an analysis of important trends in the…
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