Nobel Lectures. Physics 1996–2000
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Author(s): G. Ekspong (Ed)
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812380043
Format: softback
485pp
Price: £19.00
Review Date: 27 February 2003
Review: The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded annually. These are the full texts of the five Nobel lectures given from 1996 to 2000. They were given by David Lee, Douglas Osheroff and Robert Richardson (for the discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3); Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Phillips (leaders of the most successful groups collaborating in the work of developing methods for cooling and trapping of atoms); Robert Laughlin, Horst Störmer and Daniel Tsui (the discovery of a new type of quantum liquid with fractionally charged excitations); Gerardus d’Hoof and Martinus Veltman (work on the electromagnetic and weak interactions of the building blocks of matter), and Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby (contributions to the development of microelectronic and photonics, focusing on the integrated circuit) as well as heterostructures for lasers and high-speed transistors.