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Nobel Prize in Physics-2001

(Nobel Committee for Physics, 2001-10-09) Nobel, Prize

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics deals with an extreme state of matter, the Bose-Einstein Condensate. The three scientists who are awarded the Prize jointly are Eric A. Cornell, JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Carl E. Wieman, JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences citation runs "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates". Here we give a background and a description of the contributions of the Laureates.

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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.

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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-2004

(Nobel Committee for Physics, 2004-10-05) Nobel, Prize

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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-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-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-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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Kembhavi is new director of IUCAA

(The Times Group, 2009-01-04) Times of India

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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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Einstein’s century

(Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-01-02) Frontline

On Albert Einstein's legacy, in the World Year of Physics 2005, a hundred years after he initiated a revolutionary turn away from classical physics with his seminal papers. Excerpts from the article by T. JAYARAMAN for the May 20, 2005, issue.

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Did you miss rare blue moon welcoming the new year?

(The Express Group, 2010-01-02) Muzaffar, Maroosha

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Now, IUCCA unfolds plan to teach teachers

(The Express Group, 2010-01-10) Indian, Express

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Astronomy has a huge following among Puneites

(The Sakal Group, 2010-01-13) Dasgupta, Amitabh

Despite the pressemce pf mpted omstotitopms ;ole the Natinal Centre for Radio Astrophysics and the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune might not have developed a dynamic cultureof pursuing astronomy as a career or as a hobby. Sakaal Times finds out from the enthusiasts.

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Rapid strides

(Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-01-15) Ramchandran, R.

The past 25 years have seen spectacular developments in almost all areas of science and technology. Some of the scientific terms and phrases that are commonplace today are the result of achievements made since the mid-1980s.