Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 8, 1992 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 Derek Walcott “for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment” This year the Swedish Academy has decided to award the Nobel Prize for Literature to Derek Walcott. Walcott, who…

Critical Essay by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the This Polish work of imagination has its starting point in the naturalistic novel, especially in the form which that genre received from Zola in France. Reymont has acknowledged that the idea of his book was evoked by La Terre, not through his admiration…

The following account of Barkla’s work is by Professor G. Granqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of When X-rays fall on any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, they cause a secondary radiation. That was discovered by Sagnac in 1897 and it has since then been studied by a long series of investigators.…

14 October 1987 has decided to award the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Dr Johannes Georg Bednorz and Professor Dr Karl Alexander Müller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland, for their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials. Summary This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Dr Georg…

19 October 1988 has decided to award the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Leon Lederman, Batavia, Illinois, USA, Melvin Schwartz, Mountain view, California, USA and Jack Steinberger, Geneva, Switzerland, for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. This year’s…

Français 9 octobre 2007 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Physique pour l’année 2007 conjointement à Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, et et Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Allemagne, « pour la découverte du phénomène de magnétorésistance géante ». La nanotechnologie permet des têtes de lecture de disque dur…

Swedish 9 oktober 2007 har beslutat utdela 2007 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, Frankrike, och Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Tyskland, “för upptäckten av jättemagnetoresistans”. Nanoteknik gav känsligt läshuvud för kompakta hårddiskar Årets fysikpris belönar den teknik som används för att läsa data från hårddiskar.…

German 9. Oktober 2007 hat beschlossen den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2007 in Physik zu verleihen gemeinsam an Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, Frankreich, und Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Deutschland, „für die Entdeckung des Riesenmagnetowiderstands“. Dank Nanotechnik mehr Gigabytes aus kleinerer Festplatte Dieses Jahr zeichnet der Nobelpreis für Physik eine neue…

15 October 1979 has decided to award the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics to be shared equally between Professor Sheldon L. Glashow, Harvard University, USA, Professor Abdus Salam, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy and Imperial College, Great Britain, and Professor Steven Weinberg, Harvard University, USA, for their contributions to the theory of the unified…

14 October 1980 has decided to award the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor James W. Cronin, University of Chicago, USA and Professor Val L. Fitch, Princeton University, USA, for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons. Symmetries play a great role in many sciences and also…