The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2002 with one half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr and Masatoshi Koshiba “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos” and the other half to Riccardo Giacconi…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 8 oktober 2002 Årets Nobelpris i fysik handlar om upptäckter och detektion av partiklar och strålning från kosmos, som lett till framväxandet av två nya forskningsfält, neutrinoastronomin och röntgenastronomin. Priset utdelas med ena hälften till Raymond Davis Jr, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA och Masatoshi Koshiba, International…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002             A NEW VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE Galileo Galilei discovered new worlds with his telescope. Over the centuries, a picture of a calm and stable universe emerged – the planets untiringly orbited the sun and the stars quietly burned their hydrogen into helium…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002       Questions and Answers Related to the Prize       What is the mass of the neutrino? We do not know today if the neutrino has a non-zero mass or not. Recent results from experiments seem to indicate that neutrinos do have a very small…

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German 8. Oktober 2002 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2002 in Physik zu verleihen zur einen Hälfte gemeinsam an Raymond Davis Jr Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, und Masatoshi Koshiba Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan „für bahnbrechende Arbeiten in der Astrophysik, insbesondere für den…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002           Masatoshi Koshiba International Centre for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan   The Supernova 1987A The neutrinos arrived at 07:35 on 23 February 1987. Photo: The Anglo-Australian Observatory There is a clear increase in the signal for neutrinos coming from the sun.…

In Memory of Marc Antonio Giacconi and dedicated to my wife, Mirella, and to our daughters, Anna and Guia. I. Early yearsI was born in Genoa, Italy, on October 6, 1931, but I spent most of my life until 1956 in Milano. I was the only child. My mother, Elsa Canni Giacconi, was a teacher…

English 8 October 2002 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2002 with one half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and Masatoshi Koshiba International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the…

Swedish 8 oktober 2002 har beslutat att utdela Nobelpriset i fysik år 2002 med hälften av priset gemensamt till Raymond Davis JrDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, och Masatoshi KoshibaInternational Centre for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan ”för banbrytande insatser inom astrofysiken, särskilt för detektion av kosmiska neutriner” och…