English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Delsing, Member of the , 10 December 2010 Professor Per Delsing delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for research concerning a…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hulthén, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has this year awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics to Professor Frits Zernike, Groningen, for the phase-contrast method devised by him, and particularly for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope. Zernike’s discovery falls within…

  Presentation Speech by professor Stig Lundqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1973 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Drs. Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for their discoveries of tunnelling phenomena in solids. The tunnelling phenomena belong to the most…

Presentation Speech by Professor I. Wailer, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize winners in Physics of this year were both employed shortly before the war at the Physics Laboratory of Columbia University in New York. Lamb was at first engaged in theoretical research and published several important…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Delsing, ledamot av ; 10 December 2010 Professor Per Delsing presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Årets Nobelpris i fysik belönar forskning som rör ett nytt ultratunt material med fantastiska egenskaper. Materialet heter grafen och är det…

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 1937 will today be delivered to Dr. C.J. Davisson and Professor G.P. Thomson for their discovery of the interference phenomena…

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1938 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. With what we know today of the structure of atoms, we understand perfectly the hopeless task undertaken by alchemists of old, striving to transmute the different elements one…

Presentation Speech by Professor Cecilia Jarlskog of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Cecilia Jarlskog delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Everything is made up of water,” Thales told us…

Presentation Speech by Professor Per-Olov Löwdin of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in physics is shared equally between Philip Anderson, Sir Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck for their fundamental contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Carlson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, den 10 december 2006. Professor Per Carlson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Pristagare, mina damer och herrar, Blicka ut mot himlen en stjärnklar kväll och fascineras över det kosmiska skådespel som…