Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hulthén, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. On 12th December 1901, Marconi succeeded in establishing wireless communication between the Old World and the New. The way in which the wireless waves proved to follow the contour of the earth compelled the assumption that there must be…

Presentation Speech by Professor C.W. Oseen, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1929 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Among the great problems that scientists conducting research in electrotechnique are today trying to solve, is that of enabling two men to converse in whatever part of the…

Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Lundqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Professor Klaus von Klitzing for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect. This discovery is an example of these unexpected and surprising discoveries that…

Presentation Speech by the Librarian of the National Library, Dr. E.W. Dahlgren, President of , on December 10, 1911 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, for the year 1911, to Wilhelm Wien, Professor at the University of Würzburg, for his discoveries…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Dr. Georg Bednorz and Professor Dr. Alex Müller by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences “for their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Dr Leon Lederman, Dr Melvin Schwartz and Dr Jack Steinberger. The citation has the following wording,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Johansson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The problem of the basic structure of matter has long interested man but it was not until the time of the Greek philosophers that the problem took on a scientific character. These ideas reached…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Professor Börje Johansson, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee in Physics, 10 December 2007. Professor Börje Johansson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize…

Presentation Speech by Dr. A.G. Ekstrand, President of , on December 10, 1920 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize for Physics 1920 to Ch.E. Guillaume, Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, for the services he has rendered to…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hulthén, Chairman of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The notion of matter as something built up of very tiny and indivisible atoms is a heritage from classical times. Since, however, experimental research in our days has shown that the atoms in their turn are complicated structures,…