Physics was the prize area which Alfred Nobel mentioned first in his will. Below, articles on the subject are presented.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901-2000

BY ERIK B. KARLSSON

The Nobel Prize in Physics during the last century is reviewed in this article.

The dual nature of light as reflected in the Nobel archives

BY GÖSTA EKSPONG

Is light a wave motion or is it a stream of particles?

 

Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium

BY NANNY FRÖMAN

Marie and Pierre Curie came upon a very active substance they later called radium.

Forces

BY LARS BRINK

When an astronaut in a rocket accelerates to get away from earth, he feels a gravity force that is several times that on earth.

Lippmann’s and Gabor’s revolutionary approach to imaging

BY KLAUS BIEDERMANN

Lippman and Gabor chose an evolutionary approach to fundamental physics instead of taking the evolutionary route in engineering.

On accelerators and Nobel Laureates

BY SVEN KULLANDER

An extensive article on particle accelerators and the scientists who have contributed to their development.

Physics in Denmark: The first four hundred years

BY SVEN KULLANDER

Two men have done more than anyone else to raise the level of physics in Denmark: Hans Christian Ørsted and Niels Bohr.

Solving the mystery of the missing neutrinos

BY JOHN N. BAHCALL

In the years 2001 to 2003 scientists finally solved a mystery they had been struggling for four decades.

 

History of Caltech

BY JUDITH GOODSTEIN

From a modest little college to one of the world’s foremost training centers in physics, chemistry and engineering.

 

High energy neutrinos from the cosmos

BY PER OLOF HULTH

The visible light emitted by myriads of stars and other phenomena tell a fascinating story about the universe.

How the sun shines

BY JOHN N. BAHCALL

How does the sun produce vast amounts of energy necessary to support life on earth?