This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the
prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation
speeches by Nobel Committee members for the period 2006-2010. The
criterion for the Physics award is to the discoverer of a physical
phenomenon that changed our views, or to the inventor of a new
physical process that gave enormous benefits to either science at
large or to the public. The biographies are remarkably interesting
to read and the Nobel lectures provide detailed explanations of the
phenomena for which the Laureates were awarded the Nobel
Prize.Aspiring young scientists as well as more experienced ones,
but also the interested public will learn a lot from and appreciate
the geniuses of these narrations.List of prizewinners and their
discoveries:(2006) to John C Mather and George F Smoot "for their
discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic
microwave background radiation" 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.(2007) to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg "for the 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.(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" Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are there so
many different elementary particles? The Laureates presented
theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what
happens far inside the tiniest building blocks of matter.(2009) to
Charles Kuen Kao "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the
transmission of light in fibers for optical communication", and to
Willard S Boyle and George E Smith "for the invention of an imaging
semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor" Kao's discoveries have
paved the way for optical fiber technology, which today is used for
almost all telephony and data communication. Boyle and Smith have
invented a digital image sensor - CCD, or charge-coupled device -
which today has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of
photography.(2010) to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for
groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material
graphene" The Laureates have shown that a thin flake of ordinary
carbon, just one atom thick, has exceptional properties that
originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.
General
Imprint: |
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
Singapore |
Release date: |
August 2014 |
First published: |
August 2014 |
Editors: |
Lars Brink
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Dimensions: |
251 x 173 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-981-4612-67-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Physics >
General
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LSN: |
981-4612-67-7 |
Barcode: |
9789814612678 |
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