Physics

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004     Further reading QCD Made Simple, Physics Today August 2000, p. 22 Joining up the dots with the strong force, by C. Davies, CERN Courier June 2004, p. 23 The W and Z at LEP, by C. Stutton and P. Zerwas, Cern Courier May 2004, p. 21…

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Biographical

Pieter Zeeman was born on May 25, 1865, at Zonnemaire, a small village in the isle of Schouwen, Zeeland, The Netherlands, as the son of the local clergyman Catharinus Forandinus Zeeman and his wife, née Wilhelmina Worst. After having finished his secondary school education at Zierikzee, the main town of the island, he went to…

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Biographical

William Henry Bragg was born at Westward, Cumberland, on July 2, 1862. He was educated at Market Harborough Grammar School and afterwards at King William’s College, Isle of Man. Elected a minor scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1881, he studied mathematics under the well-known teacher, Dr. E. J. Routh. He was Third Wrangler in…

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Biographical

(Translation) Born     August 1 1924 in Dabrovica, PolandNaturalized French citizen in 1946     Studies     Lycée Saint Louis in Paris   Lycée de Montpellier 1945-1947 Ecole des Mines (Mining school) in Paris     Degrees   1948 Bachelor of Science. Mining engineer. 1954 Ph. D. Physics. Experimental research inNuclear Physics at…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1958 General Characteristics of Radiation Emitted by Systems Moving with Super-Light Velocities with Some Applications to Plasma Physics Pdf 312 kB

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