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Richard P. Feynman – Biographical
Biographical
Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City on the 11th May 1918. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained his B.Sc. in 1939 and at Princeton University where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1942. He was Research Assistant at Princeton (1940-1941), Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University (1945-1950),…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The electrons of an atom move according to the laws of quantum mechanics established in 1925 and the next following years. For the hydrogen atom, which has only one electron and consequently is the simplest atom to investigate theoretically,…
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