Nobel Prize

I was born in Camberwell, South London, on the 26th of March, 1938. I am told I only made it into the world on the date in question by seven minutes, thereby exhibiting at this early stage the tendency to procrastination which I fear has characterized much of my subsequent career. Not a great deal…

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Svenska Supraledning Rose, J. (1996). “Universum i en droppe”, Forskning och Framsteg nr 8/96, s. 42–43. “Kryofysik”, Svenska Fysikersamfundets årsbok KOSMOS 1988, band 65: 1988 (flera artiklar om supraledning och supravätskor).   English The Laureates Alexei A. Abrikosov, Argonne National Laboratory , P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences , University of Illinois at…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003           Vitaly L. Ginzburg P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia   Together with his colleague Lev Landau, Vitaly Ginzburg developed a phenomenological theory of superconductivity in the late 1940s. This theory proposes that those electrons that contribute to superconduction form a superfluid. The superconductor…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003     Credits Editors: Professor Mats Jonson, Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers, Göteborg, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics Anders Bárány, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics Jonas Förare and Katarina Werner, Information Department, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Kjell Lundin, Explicare Printing:…