Physics
Illustrated presentation
Illustrated information
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. KendallMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USAandRichard E. TaylorStanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), CA, USA for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons…
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James Franck – Biographical
Biographical
James Franck was born on August 26, 1882, in Hamburg, Germany. After attending the Wilhelm Gymnasium there, he studied mainly chemistry for a year at the University of Heidelberg, and then studied physics at the University of Berlin, where his principal tutors were Emil Warburg and Paul Drude. He received his Ph.D. at Berlin in…
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Leon N. Cooper – Biographical
Biographical
Leon Cooper was born in 1930 in New York where he attended Columbia University (A.B. 1951; A.M. 1953; Ph.D. 1954). He became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1954-55) after which he was a research associate of Illinois (1955-57) and later an assistant professor at the Ohio State University (1957-58). Professor Cooper joined…
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