1996

Interview

Interview transcript I just would like to start off the interview for the official website. Welcome Professor Osheroff to this interview. And really start off with asking you something about your childhood. It seems like you really liked experimenting at the time. There are some amazing stories that we have been able…

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Banquet speech

David M. Lee’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1996 Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, It has been a great pleasure to have participated in an exciting journey of discovery with my friends and colleagues, Douglas Osheroff and Robert Richardson. I speak on behalf of the three of us in expressing our…

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Nobel Symposia

Presentation at the , 2001: Condensation and Coherence in Condensed Systems December 4-7, 2001, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg Impurity-Helium Solids – Quantum Gels? Pdf 3.55 MB

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Speed read

Viruses, such as those that cause the common cold or flu, are a particularly devious form of intruder to tackle. Once they enter their host, these infectious agents find cells to hide in while they reproduce in order to infiltrate more targets. Fortunately for us our internal defence system has a trick up its sleeve…

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Banquet speech

Wislawa Szymborska delivering her banquet speech, 10 December 1996. Wisława Szymborska’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1996 (in French) Personne n’a de routine de recevoir le Prix Nobel. De même personne n’a de routine d’en exprimer sa reconnaissance. Dans ma langue maternelle, comme dans chaque langue d’ailleurs, il y a beaucoup de mots…

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Nobel Lecture

English Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1996 The poet and the world They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway. But I have a feeling that the sentences to come – the third, the sixth, the tenth, and so on, up to the final line -…

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