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  2. The Meaning of It All - Wikipedia

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    The Meaning of It All contains three public lectures Richard Feynman gave on the theme "A Scientist Looks at Society" during the John Danz Lecture Series at the University of Washington, Seattle in April 1963. [3] [4] At the time Feynman was already a highly respected physicist who played a big role in laying the groundwork for modern particle ...

  3. 2019 Nobel Prizes - Wikipedia

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    The 2019 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. [1] [2] Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions.

  4. William Daniel Phillips - Wikipedia

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    William Daniel Phillips on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture on December 8, 1997 Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms; Curriculum Vitae from NIST. Atoms floating in optical molasses. Press Release: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics-for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

  5. Anthony James Leggett - Wikipedia

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    Leggett is widely recognised as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognised by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. [6] He has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids. [ 7 ]

  6. Max Born - Wikipedia

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    1954 – Nobel Prize in Physics The award was for Born's fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction. [81] 1954 – Nobel Prize Banquet Speech [85] 1954 – Born Nobel Prize Lecture [86] 1956 – Hugo Grotius Medal for International Law, Munich [81]

  7. John Hasbrouck Van Vleck - Wikipedia

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    John Hasbrouck Van Vleck on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977 Quantum Mechanics The Key to Understanding Magnetism; John Hasbrouck Van Vleck 13 March 1899-27 October 1980, Elected for Mem. R.S. 1967, by Brebis Bleaney, from Royal Society Publishing. The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities ; John Hasbrouck ...

  8. Nikolay Basov - Wikipedia

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    Nobel Prize in Physics (1964, with the pioneering work done in the field of quantum electronics) Hero of Socialist Labour — twice (1969, 1982) Gold Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1975) A. Volta Gold Medal (1977) Kalinga Prize (1986) USSR State Prize (1989) Lomonosov Grand Gold Medal, Moscow State University (1990) Order of ...

  9. Gerhard Herzberg - Wikipedia

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    Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, PC CC FRSC FRS [1] (German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁt ˈhɛʁt͡sˌbɛʁk] ⓘ; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals". [2]