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Physics Behind the Nobel Prizes (PSEM)
Description
This seminar will explore in detail some of the most important Nobel Prizes in experimental physics, and closely connected theory topics. (See also the main page for the physics prizes.)
You will select a topic from the list of possibilities below, and give a scientific presentation that advances from introductory concepts to convey the most important physics results associated with that prize.
Grading will be based on a written report that you develop from your presentation.
Presentations (and questions!) may be in either English or German.
Some helpful resources:
Schedule of presentations:
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| 20.05 |
Lamb shift Transistor |
Vollus |
| 27.05 |
X-rays Neutrino oscillations |
Schoreit |
| 03.06 | Stellar fusion | Winkler |
| 17.06 |
? CMB |
Rabitsch Feist |
Prizes grouped by research field
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
- Entanglement, Bell inequalities, quantum information (2022)
- Frequency combs and precision metrology (2005)
- Bose-Einstein Condensation (2001)
- Laser cooling and trapping (1997)
- Ramsey's method of interferometry (1989)
- Lamb shift in atomic hydrogen (1955)
- Phase contrast microscopy (1953)
- Stern-Gerlach experiments (1943)
- van der Waals interactions (1910)
- Michelson interferometry (1907)
Solid state physics
- Scanning tunneling microscopy (1986)
- Quantum Hall effect (1985)
- Invention of the transistor (1956)
- Liquefaction of helium (1913)
Nuclear and particle physics
- Neutrino oscillations (2015)
- Cosmic Neutrinos (2002)
- Discovery of CP violation (1980)
- Stellar fusion reactions (1967)
- Nuclear shell model (1963)
- Mössbauer effect (1961)
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (1952)
- Fission of heavy nuclei (Chemistry 1944)
- Discovery of the neutron (1935)
- Alpha radiation and radiochemistry (Chemistry, 1908)
- Radioactivity and new elements (1903, Chemistry 1911)
Cosmology
- Cosmic microwave spectrum and anisotropy (2006)
Fundamental physics developments
- Atomic theory and quantum mechanics (1932, 1933, 1954)
- Wave-particle duality (1929)
- Charge quantization (1923)
- Photoelectric effect (1921)
- X-ray diffraction (1914, 1915)
- Radio technology (1909)
- X-rays (1901)
Practice groups
- Group Standardgruppe (Skyler Degenkolb, Matthias Weidemüller)
7 participants
INF 227 01.404, Tue 14:00 - 16:00
