Presentation Speech by Professor Lamek Hulthén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s prize is shared between Peter Leonidovitj Kapitza, Moscow, “for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics” and Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA,…

Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Since discovery of the atomic nucleus fifty years ago, one of the most fundamental problems in physics has been to investigate how it is constituted. The ideas on this question could be firmly founded when, shortly after 1930,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the . Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, The air that we breathe not only contains oxygen and nitrogen, but also small quantities of other gases. One of these – often mentioned in connection with the global greenhouse effect – is…

Presentation Speech by Professor K.B. Hasselberg, member of , on December 10, 1907 The Royal Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics to Professor Albert A. Michelson of Chicago, for his optical precision instruments and the research which he has carried out with their help in the fields of…

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…