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Swedish Imre Kertész är född i Budapest den 9 november 1929. Han är av judisk börd. 1944 deporterades han till Auschwitz och därifrån till Buchenwald varifrån han befriades 1945. Då han kommit tillbaka till Ungern arbetade han från 1948 på tidningen Világosság i Budapest men avskedades 1951 då tidningen blev partitrogen. Efter två års militärtjänst…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Torgny Lindgren of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Writer Torgny Lindgren delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The realities that are the subject of Imre Kertész’s literary…

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Biographical

Curriculum Vitae Name: KOSHIBA, Masatoshi. Date/Place of Birth: September 19, 1926/Toyohashi city, Aichi Pref., Japan. Nationality: Japanese. Marital status: Married to Kyoko KATO on October 5, 1959, in Tokyo. Permanent address: 4-11-7 Shimoigusa, Suginami, Tokyo 167-0022 Japan. Tel/Fax: 81-3-3396-6868, e-mail: mkoshiba@icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Education Mar. 1951: Graduated from University of Tokyo, physics major. Apr. ’51 to Mar.…

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English The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is concerned with the discoveries and detection of cosmic particles and radiation, from which two new fields of research have emerged, neutrino astronomy and X-ray astronomy. The Prize is awarded with one half jointly to: Raymond Davis Jr, Department of Physics and…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002     Credits Editors: Mark Pearce, The Royal Institute of Technology, Björn Davidsson, Uppsala University, Per Carlson and Bengt Gustafsson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Anders Bárány, Secr. of the Nobel committee for Physics, Jonas Förare and Katarina Werner, Information Department, The Royal Swedish Academy of…

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002           The discovery of the first known X-ray source outside the solar system, Scorpius X-1. This observation was made in 1962, with an Aerobee rocket. X-ray background radiation was also detected.   Scorpius X-1 (artist’s impression) is a binary system consisting of a neutron…

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