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…

Nobel Laureates 2004 – Credits Production TWI: Narrator: Josette Simon Titles and Graphics: Kevin Cooney Editor: Gidon Benari Sound: Stuart Browne Researcher: Alex Gervin Production Manager: Kate Best Executive Producer: Rick Thomas Producer: Linda Daniel Camera: Sveriges Television AB – SVT Copyright Acknowledgements: Physical Review Journal Papers, Courtesy of the American Physical Society U.S. Department…

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Presentation Speech by Professor J.P. Klason, President of , on December 10, 1906 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Every day that passes witnesses electricity obtaining an ever-increasing importance in practical life. The conceptions, which a few decades ago were the subject of investigation in the quiet studies or laboratories of sundry learned…