Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Stig Stenholm, ledamot av , den 10 december 2005. Professor Stig Stenholm presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Vi lever i en värld av ljus. Vi upplever omvärlden genom synen. Likaså ger ljuset från de avlägsnaste galaxerna kunskap…

Presentation Speech by the former Rector General of National Antiquities H. Hildebrand, President of , on December 10, 1909 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Research in physics has provided us with many surprises. Discoveries which at first seemed to have but theoretical interest have often led to inventions of the greatest importance…

Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. For many ages, an important aim of science has been to explain the phenomena we observe by the properties of fundamental particles. In modern physics this problem is of first importance. During the last decade, fundamental particles called “mesons” have turned out…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. When, shortly after 1930, Alfred Kastler embarked upon a scientific career, he concentrated his attention on problems connected with light scattering. He used novel methods to analyse this phenomenon, which had already been studied by projecting light emitted by…

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…

Presentation Speech by Professor S. von Friesen, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The science of physics has as its function the study of energy in all its forms. observed that matter, or mass, is one of the forms in which energy manifests itself. This fact was established experimentally 35…

Presentation Speech by Professor Tord Claeson of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Tord Claeson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Information technology (IT) influences our lives at many levels.…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindgren of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is shared between three scientists, Professor Norman Ramsey, Harvard University, Professor Hans Dehmelt, University of Washington, Seattle, and Professor Wolfgang Paul, University of Bonn, for “contributions of importance…

Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Research into the laws valid for the movement of the electrons around the nucleus in the centre of the atom has been a central problem for physics during this century. made a start on the solution to the…

Speech by professor Erik Ingelstam of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our five senses give us knowledge of our surroundings, and nature herself has many available resources. The most obvious is light which gives us the possibility to see and to be pleased by colour and shape. Sound conveys the speech with…