The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is to be shared by three scientists: Frenchman Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences citation runs “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”. The Laureates’ contributions have already assumed…

English The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 Three scientists share this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry: William S. Knowles, previously at Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan and K. Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Roger D. Kornberg for his fundamental studies concerning how the information stored in the genes is copied, and then transferred to those parts of the cells that produce proteins. Kornberg was the first to create an actual picture of this…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 There is an increasing need for complex chemicals. Humanity wants new medicines that can cure cancer or halt the devastating effects of deadly viruses in the human body. The electronics industry is searching for substances that can emit light, and the agricultural industry wants substances that can protect crops.…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to ALBERT FERT and PETER GRÜNBERG for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. Applications of this phenomenon have revolutionized techniques for retrieving data from hard disks. The discovery also plays a major role in various magnetic sensors as well as for the…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 7 oktober 2003 Den kvantfysik som styr mikrovärlden uppvisar en hel rad spektakulära effekter som normalt inte förekommer i vår vanliga makrovärld. Det finns dock vissa situationer där kvantfenomen blir synliga. Årets Nobelpris i fysik belönar arbeten rörande två av dessa: supraledning och suprafluiditet. Alexei Abrikosov och Vitaly Ginzburg har utvecklat teorier…

English The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000″for basic work on information and communication technology” The prize is being awarded with one half jointly toZhores I. Alferov, A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, andHerbert Kroemer, University of California at Santa Barbara, California, USA,”for developing semiconductor heterostructures…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are there so many different elementary particles? This year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics have presented theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what happens far inside the tiniest building blocks of matter. Unravelling the hidden symmetries of nature Nature’s…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 10 oktober 2000 har utdelat Nobelpriset i fysik år 2000 “för arbeten som lagt grunden till den moderna informationstekniken.” Priset utdelas med ena hälften gemensamt till Zhores I. Alferov, A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, S:t Petersburg, Ryssland, och Herbert Kroemer, University of California at Santa Barbara, Kalifornien, USA, “för utvecklingen av halvledarheterostrukturer för…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 9 oktober 2001 Årets Nobelpris i fysik handlar om ett extremt materietillstånd kallat Bose-Einsteinkondensat (BEC). De tre forskare som gemensamt får priset är Eric A. Cornell, JILA och National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, och Carl E. Wieman,…