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…

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18 October 1982 NEW THEORY FOR PHASE TRANSITIONS AWARDED has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1982 to Professor Kenneth G. Wilson, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions. In daily life and from classical physics we know that matter can exist in different…

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