English (pdf) 6 October 2015 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to Takaaki Kajita Super-Kamiokande Collaboration University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan and Arthur B. McDonald Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass” Metamorphosis in the particle world…

Text taken from Wikipedia, 29 February 2016 In 2011, Tunisia was experiencing a revolution. In its wake, the stability and security of the country were considerably compromised. After the creation of the Assemblée nationale constituante (Constituent Assembly of Tunisia) of 2011, the writing of a new constitution proved difficult and the one-year deadline for its…

Excerpt from Voices from Chernobyl Children’s Chorus Alyosha Belskiy, 9; Anya Bogush, 10; Natasha Dvoretskaya, 16; Lena Zhudro, 15; Yura Zhuk, 15; Olya Zvonak, 10; Snezhana Zinevich, 16; Ira Kudryacheva, 14; Ylya Kasko, 11; Vanya Kovarov, 12; Vadim Karsnosolnyshko, 9; Vasya Mikulich, 15; Anton Nashivankin, 14; Marat Tatartsev, 16; Yulia Taraskina, 15; Katya Shevchuk, 15;…

Asked to reflect on my background, I realise that the conditions under which I grew up were very different from those that young scholars encounter today. I was raised and educated in post-war Stockholm, Sweden, where I was born on 28 January 1938. My parents lived on one of the large islands in central Stockholm…

I was born on March 9, 1959, in Higashi-Matsuyama, a small city located about an hour’s train ride north of Tokyo. My house was located in the countryside, surrounded by rice fields on the north, east, and south. I grew up in such a peaceful environment. I went to Kawagoe High School, a rather typical…

Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Exellencies Dear Laureates, Students, Ladies and gentlemen, Today I am speaking for Prof. Kajita and our two scientific Collaborations, SuperKamiokande and SNO, of which there are a number of representatives here with us today. We would like to express our profound thanks to your Majesties, to the…

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Telephone interview, October 2015 “You have to understand what makes people tick” Telephone interview with Professor Angus Deaton following the award of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, 12 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief…

Swedish 7 oktober 2015 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi 2015 till Tomas Lindahl Francis Crick Institute och Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, Storbritannien Paul Modrich Howard Hughes Medical Institute och Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA and Aziz Sancar University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA “för mekanistiska studier av DNA-reparation” Cellens…

English 7 October 2015 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Tomas Lindahl Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK Paul Modrich Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA and Aziz Sancar University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA “for mechanistic…