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Presentation Speech by Professor A. Lindstedt, President of , on December 10, 1905 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to give this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics to Dr. Philipp Lenard, Professor at the University of Kiel, for his important work on cathode rays. The…

The following account of Stern’s and Rabi’s works is by Professor E. Hulthén, Stockholm (Broadcast lecture, 10th December, 1944) There is a certain relation between electric and magnetic phenomena in that the magnetic field can generally be ascribed to the presence of electric currents. It was in this way that the famous Ampère sought to…

Presentation Speech by Professor Cecilia Jarlskog of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, One of the most important tasks of physics is to provide us with a clearer picture of the world we live in. We know that the observable universe is much larger than any of…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004             The Standard Model and the four forces The quarks and gluons of the strong (or colour) force are the third piece in the puzzle of nature’s four forces. The first piece, the electromagnetic force, is similar to the strong force but instead…

Swedish har beslutat att utdela 1995 års Nobelpris i fysik för banbrytande experimentella insatser inom leptonfysiken med ena hälften till Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, Kalifornien, USA för upptäckten av tauonen och med andra hälften till Frederick Reines, University of California, Irvine, Kalifornien, USA för påvisandet av neutrinon. Upptäckterna av två av naturens småpartiklar…

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William Lawrence Bragg, son of William Henry Bragg, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on March 31, 1890. He received his early education at St. Peter’s College in his birthplace, proceeding to Adelaide University to take his degree in mathematics with first-class honours in 1908. He came to England with his father in 1909 and…

Julian Schwinger was born on 12th February 1918 in New York City. The principal direction of his life was fixed at an early age by an intense awareness of physics, and its study became an all-engrossing activity. To judge by a first publication, he debuted as a professional physicist at the age of sixteen. He…