Zhores I. Alferov
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Alferov:
Featured: A to Z of Physicists (p 1)
Featured: Great Minds - Reflections of 111 Top Scientists (p 3)
Book: Lenin's Laureate - Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
Article: Energy relaxation by multiphonon processes in InAs/GaAs quantum dots
Herbert Kroemer
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Kroemer:
Chapter: "Semiconducting and Superconducting Physics and Devices in the InAs/AlSb Materials System" inside Nanotechnology
Book: Thermal Physics
Article: Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors and Integrated Circuits
Jack S. Kilby
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Kilby:
Featured: A to Z of physicists (p 162)
Featured: "Integrated Circuit" inside UXL Encyclopedia of Science.
Chapter: "What are some of Technology's Unanticipated Consequences?" inside Engineering tomorrow - today's technology experts envision the next century
Book: The chip - How two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Eric A. Cornell
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Cornell:
Video Interview (with Cornell, Ketterle & Wieman)
Article: Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor
BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE
Wolfgang Ketterle
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Ketterle:
Chapter: "Bose-Einstein Condensation: Identity Crisis for Indistinguishable Particle" inside Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads: New Perspectives from History, Philosophy and Physics (ebook)
Article: Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of sodium atoms
Carl E. Wieman
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Wieman:
Chapter: "Cooling and Trapping of Atoms" inside Advances in Spectroscopy for Lasers and Sensing
Raymond Davis Jr.
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Davis:
Book: Solar Neutrinos - The First 30 Years
Feature: The Life of Raymond Davis, Jr. & the Beginning of Neutrino Astronomy
Article: Solar Neutrinos II Experimental
*Interesting Fact* Davis is the oldest person to receive a Nobel Prize, at 88 years old.
Masatoshi Koshiba
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Koshiba:
Book: Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Article: Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A
Riccardo Giacconi
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Giacconi:
Book: Secrets of the Hoary Deep: A Personal History of Modern Astronomy
Article: Chandra Deep Field South: The 1 Ms Catalog
Alexei A. Abrikosov
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Abrikosov:
Chapter: Superconductivity - A Very Short Introduction (ch 6)
Book: Buried Glory - Portraits of Soviet Scientists (p 167)
Book: Under the Spell of Landau - When Theoretical Physics was Shaping Destinies
Article: Theory of High-Tc Superconducting Cuprates Based on Experimental Evidence
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Ginzburg:
Book: On Superconductivity and Superfluidity: A Scientific Autobiography (ebook)
Book: The Physics of a Lifetime: Reflections on the Problems and Personalities of 20th Century Physics
Article: Cosmic magnetobremsstrahlung (synchrotron radiation)
Anthony J. Leggett
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Leggett:
Chapter: "Is Quantum Mechanics the Whole Truth?" inside Quo vadis quantum mechanics? (ebook)
Chapter: "The Major Unknown in Quantum Mechanics: Is it the Whole Truth?" inside Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness
Book: The Problems of Physics
Article: Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Alkali Gases: Some Fundamental Concepts
David J. Gross
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Gross:
Featured in: Great Minds - Reflections of 111 Great Scientists (p 45)
Chapter: "QCD Now & Then" in From PS to the LHC: 50 Years of Nobel Memories
Article: Asymptotically free gauge theories (w/ Wilczek)
H. David Politzer
About Politzer:
Profile: "Our Man on the Manhattan Project" in the CalTech News
Book: The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe (p 257)
Article: Reliable perturbative results for strong interactions?
Frank Wilczek
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Wilczek:
Chapter: "QCD An Unfinished Symphony" in From PS to the LHC - 50 Years of Nobel Memories
Chapter: "Simplicity" inside This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful + Elegant Theories of How the World Works
Chapter: "Blown Opportunities" inside What Should We be Worried About? : Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
Chapter: "The Nobel Prize and After" inside The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries + Future of the Cosmos
Book: Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys + a Trip to Stockholm
Book: Longing for the Harmonies
Book: The Lightness of Being
Article: Asymptotically free gauge theories (w/ Gross)
Roy J. Glauber
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Glauber:
Article: Coherent and incoherent states of the radiation field
John L. Hall
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Hall:
Theodor W. Hänsch
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Hänsch:
Article: Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms
John C. Mather
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Mather:
Podcast: "Is there life on Mars?" Nobel Prize Talks with John C. Mather (episode #22)
Article: The cosmic microwave background spectrum from the full COBE FIRAS data set
George F. Smoot
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Smoot:
Podcast: "How big is the universe?" Nobel Prize Talks with George F. Smoot (episode # 21)
Book: Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe
Article: Four-Year COBE DMR Cosmic Microwave Background Observations: Maps and Basic Results
Albert Fert
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Fert:
Chapter: "The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics: A Fert + P Grünberg" in The Spin
Book: Magnetism - A Very Short Introduction (p 91)
Article: Giant Magnetoresistance of (001)Fel(001)Cr Magnetic Snperlattices
Peter Grünberg
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Grünberg:
Chapter: "The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics: A Fert + P Grünberg" in The Spin
Book: Magnetism - A Very Short Introduction (p 91)
Article: Enhanced magnetoresistance in layered magnetic structures with antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange
Yoichiro Nambu
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Nambu:
Book: Quarks - Frontiers in Elementary Particle Physics
Article: Relativistic dispersion relation approach to photomeson production
Makoto Kobayashi
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Kobayashi:
Article: CP-violation in the renormalizable theory of weak interaction (w/Masakawa)
Chapter: "Origins of the Third Generation of Matter" inside The Evidence for the Top Quark (p 8)
Toshihide Maskawa
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Masakawa:
Article: CP-violation in the renormalizable theory of weak interaction
Charles K. Kao
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Kao:
Book: A Time and a Tide: A Memoir
Book: Optical Fibre
Article: "High density metal-insulator-metal capacitor based on ZrO 2/Al 2 O 3/ZrO 2 laminate dielectric"
Willard S. Boyle
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Boyle:
Article: Charge coupled semiconductor devices
George E. Smith
Nobel Lecture (video) / Biography
About Smith:
Article: "Conductively Connected Charge-Coupled Devices" @ IEEE Xplore
