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My youth I was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA, a college town of 16,000, nestled in a verdant valley in the Rocky Mountains. My father, David Wynne Thorne, was a professor of soil chemistry at the Utah Agricultural College (since renamed Utah State University). Over his lifetime he had a major impact, through…

https://youtu.be/YlQugR7KSKg Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, 10 December 2019.

https://youtu.be/Z7q2Miw5j3E Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)

R eflecting on my background, it is not at all apparent why my life did not go in other directions, rather than my becoming a physicist, and one dedicated to an academic career and pursuing research on some of the most fundamental problems in nature. My families’ backgrounds are not very well documented, but I…

My father came from a well-off German Jewish family in Berlin with connections to the Rathenau family that had begun the Allgemeine Electrische Gesellschaft (AEG). As a young man he had become an ardent and idealistic communist. After finishing medical school he worked in a communist workers’ hospital as a neurologist in Berlin. My mother…

https://youtu.be/UEpRjp5WpHQ James Peebles’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Excellencies Dear Laureates and guests Ladies and gentlemen I rise on behalf of Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz, and myself to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for their recognition of our pure curiosity-driven research…