Yuan Tseh Lee was born on November 19, 1936 in Hsinchu, Taiwan. His father is an accomplished artist and his mother a school teacher. He started his early education while Taiwan was under Japanese occupation – a result of a war between China and Japan in 1894. His elementary education was disrupted soon after it…

Interview transcript Welcome to this interview Professor. I want to start off by asking you a little bit about your childhood and what made you want to take the way to becoming a scientist. Was there something particular in your childhood? Yuan T. Lee: I was born in Taiwan before the end…

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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1986 The Development of the Electron Microscope and of Electron Microscopy Pdf 1.83 MB

Ernst Ruska’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1986 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, As the oldest of the Physics Laureates of this year, the pleasant task fell on me to express our deep-felt gratitude towards the Nobel Committee for the high honour bestowed upon our scientific work. Our work, although…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1986 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy – From Birth to Adolescence Pdf 829 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1986 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy – From Birth to Adolescence Pdf 829 kB

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James M. Buchanan Jr.’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1986 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This is, indeed, a unique experience for me, so much so that I feel very much like the blind man in the nudist camp. I am feeling my way around. More seriously, I have the…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1986 The Constitution of Economic Policy I. Introduction The science of public finance should always keep… political conditions clearly in mind. Instead of expecting guidance from a doctrine of taxation that is based on the political philosophy of by-gone ages, it should instead endeavor to unlock…