Nobel Prizes - Physics

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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2011
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2011-10-04) Bergstrom, Lars; Botner, Olga; et al.
    "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice…” * What will be the final destiny of the Universe? Probably it will end in ice, if we are to believe this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics. They have studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae, and discovered that the Universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates themselves.
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2010
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2010-10-05) Bergstrom, Lars; Delsing, Per; et al.
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2009
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2009-10-06) Nordgren, Joseph; Bergstrom, Lars; et al.
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication" and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor".
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2008
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2008-10-07) Bergstrom, Lars
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 to Yoichiro Nambu "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature".
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2007
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2007-10-09) Nobel, Prize
    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 development of a new generation of electronics. The use of Giant Magnetoresistance can be regarded as one of the first major applications of nanotechnology.
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2006
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2006-10-03) Nobel, Prize
    The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 is awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot for their discovery of the basic form of the cosmic microwave background radiation as well as its small variations in different directions. The very detailed observations that the Laureates have carried out from the COBE satellite have played a major role in the development of modern cosmology into a precise science.
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2005
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2005-10-04) Nobel, Prize
    This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to three scientists in the field of optics. Roy Glauber is awarded half of the Prize for his theoretical description of the behaviour of light particles. John Hall and Theodor Hänsch share the other half of the Prize for their development of laser based precision spectroscopy, that is, the determination of the colour of the light of atoms and molecules with extreme precision.
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2004
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2004-10-05) Nobel, Prize
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2003
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2003-10-07) Nobel, Prize
    The quantum physics that controls the micro-world has a wide range of spectacular effects that do not normally occur in our ordinary macro-world. There are, however, certain situations in which quantum phenomena are visible. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for work concerning two of these situations: superconductivity and superfluidity. Alexei Abrikosov and Vitaly Ginzburg have developed theories for superconductivity and Anthony Leggett has explained one type of superfluidity. Both superconductivity and superfluidity occur at very low temperatures.
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    Nobel Prize in Physics-2002
    (Nobel Committee for Physics, 2002-10-08) Nobel, Prize
    This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is concerned with the discoveries and detection of cosmic particles and radiation, from which two new fields of research have emerged, neutrino astronomy and X-ray astronomy. The Prize is awarded with one half jointly to: Raymond Davis Jr, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and Masatoshi Koshiba, International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan, “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”, and the second half to Riccardo Giacconi, Associated Universities, Inc., Washington, DC, USA, “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources”. Here is a description of the scientists' award-winning achievements.