Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindgren of the December 10, 1991 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, College de France, Paris, for his investigations of liquid crystals and polymers. De Gennes has shown that mathematical…

Presentation Speech by Professor A.E. Lindh, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The earliest known attempts to attain high pressures and to study various properties of matter under the influence of these pressures date from the beginning and middle of the 17th century. The experiments, which were carried out by extremely…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Johansson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Astrophysics is one of the areas in physics which has developed most rapidly during recent years. Through satellite technology it has become possible to study the different physical processes which are taking place in…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Olga Botner, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén i fysik, 10 December 2011 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Allow me to start in English by citing a short poem by the Danish scientist, poet and designer Piet Hein, called Nothing is indispensable – grook to warn the…

  Presentation Speech by professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, By decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, this year’s Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Professor Burton Richter and to Professor Samuel Ting for their pioneering work in the…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has had a great impact on gravitational…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Bertram Brockhouse and Clifford Shull for their pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for the study of liquid and solid matter.…

Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Lundqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The development in physics is on the whole characterized by a close interaction between experiment and theory. New experimental discoveries lead often rapidly to the development of theoretical ideas and methods that predict new…

Presentation Speech by Professor A.E. Lindh, member of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In awarding this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor C.F. Powell of Bristol, the Swedish Academy of Sciences cited his development of the photographic method for the study of nuclear processes and his discoveries concerning the mesons. The…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Brink, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 December 2008 Professor Lars Brink presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2008 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Jorden är rund. Denna enkla mening rymmer så mycket. Den visar att vi människor ser objekten…