Nobel Prize

Announcement by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy to the Soviet-Russian writer Boris Pasternak for his notable achievement in both contemporary poetry and the field of the great Russian narrative tradition. As is well…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1972 This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature made his debut in 1949. A selective bibliography from January 1972 on works by, and about, Heinrich Böll lists some forty volumes from his own hand, disregarding reprints and new editions. Last in…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 11, 1990 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 Octavio Paz “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity” This year the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the Mexican writer, poet and essayist Octavio Paz, honouring a writer of Spanish with a…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 The Australian Patrick White has been awarded the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”, as it says in the citation. White’s growing fame is based chiefly on seven novels…

16 October 1985 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1985 to Professor Klaus von Klitzing, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany, for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect. Summary When an electric current passes through a metal strip there is normally no difference in potential across…

English 9 October 2007 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 jointly to Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, and Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”. Nanotechnology gives sensitive read-out heads for compact hard disks This year’s physics prize is awarded…

15 October 1986 has decided to award the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half to Professor. Ernst Ruska, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope and the other half, jointly to Dr Gerd Binnig and Dr…

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…