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German Biobibliographische Notiz Imre Kertész wurde am 9. November 1929 in Budapest geboren. Er ist jüdischer Herkunft. 1944 wurde er nach Auschwitz und von dort nach Buchenwald verschleppt, wo er 1945 befreit wurde. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Ungarn arbeitete er ab 1948 an der Zeitung Világosság in Budapest, wurde aber 1951 entlassen, als die Zeitung…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 When you sunbathe, you also take a neutrino shower: 100,000 billion pass through your body every second. Statistically speaking, your body will stop only one of the many neutrinos which pass through it during a lifetime. What makes the sun shine? Light…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 In the centre of our galaxy lies an X-ray source, the intensity of which can fluctuate wildly by the minute. Is this radiation emitted from matter that is falling into a super-massive black hole? The galaxy NGC 5128 is located 11 million light years from earth. What…
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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 –…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 Raymond Davis Jr University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, previously at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA. A neutrino produced an argon atom in the tank every other day. ELUSIVE PARTICLES CAPTURED IN CLEANING FLUID Neutrinos rarely interact with matter and are…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 Riccardo Giacconi Associated Universities Inc., Washington, DC, USA Photo: National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) On 18 June 1962, a new era in astronomy started when a rocket experiment demonstrated the presence of X-ray radiation outside the solar system. Leading the project was…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Per Carlson of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Per Carlson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Does the slow gravitational contraction of the sun produce…
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