Physics
Philipp Lenard – Biographical
Biographical
Philipp von Lenard was born at Pozsony (Pressburg) in Austria-Hungary on June 7, 1862. His family had originally come from the Tyrol. He studied physics successively at Budapest, Vienna, Berlin and Heidelberg under Bunsen, Helmholtz, Königsberger and Quincke and in 1886 took his Ph.D. at Heidelberg. From 1892 he worked as a Privatdozent and assistant…
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James Chadwick – Biographical
Biographical
James Chadwick was born in Cheshire, England, on 20th October, 1891, the son of John Joseph Chadwick and Anne Mary Knowles. He attended Manchester High School prior to entering Manchester University in 1908; he graduated from the Honours School of Physics in 1911 and spent the next two years under in the Physical Laboratory in…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , December 10, 1927 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago for the discovery of the phenomenon named…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1992
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics to Georges Charpak for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. Georges Charpak CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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