https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is shared between scientists from the US, France and Canada for "groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics". https://www.thelocal.se/20181002/live-blog-sweden-nobel-prize-in-physics-to-be-announced-stockholm Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:00:03 +0200 live-blog-sweden-nobel-prize-in-physics-to-be-announced-stockholm With more than 100 years of theory and a 1.3 billion year journey involved, the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics is truly a product of our past. https://www.thelocal.se/20171003/a-long-time-ago-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away-the-2017-nobel-physics-prize-explained Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:36:31 +0200 a-long-time-ago-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away-the-2017-nobel-physics-prize-explained The winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics have been announced in Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20171003/blog-swedens-nobel-prize-in-physics-2017 Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:30:09 +0200 blog-swedens-nobel-prize-in-physics-2017 A British trio based in the US are this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. https://www.thelocal.se/20161004/who-are-the-british-winners-of-the-nobel-prize-in-physics Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:46:44 +0200 who-are-the-british-winners-of-the-nobel-prize-in-physics Three British scientists based in the US have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Local reported live. https://www.thelocal.se/20161004/live-swedens-nobel-prize-in-physics-2016 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:30:00 +0200 live-swedens-nobel-prize-in-physics-2016 A morsel of never-before-seen alien rock has been dug up in a limestone quarry in Sweden, where it had lain deeply buried for about 470 million years, scientists have said. https://www.thelocal.se/20160615/mystery-space-rock-found-in-sweden Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:20:20 +0200 mystery-space-rock-found-in-sweden Two scientists will share the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, judges in Stockholm announced on Tuesday. But who are Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B McDonald? https://www.thelocal.se/20151006/who-are-the-2015-nobel-physics-winners Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:27:06 +0200 who-are-the-2015-nobel-physics-winners Scientists from Japan and Canada will share the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Local live blogged the key moments from Tuesday's announcement in Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20151006/live-swedens-nobel-prize-in-physics-2015 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:56:36 +0200 live-swedens-nobel-prize-in-physics-2015 A fight over how to allocate credit for the discovery of the Higgs particle was the cause of an hour-long delay in the announcement of the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday, a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences has confirmed. https://www.thelocal.se/20131009/50690 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:10:00 +0200 50690 The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for the theory of how particles acquire mass. https://www.thelocal.se/20131008/50662 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:45:00 +0200 50662 Peter Higgs, the man widely tipped to win the Nobel Prize in Physics plans to be in hiding at the time of the announcement on Tuesday, according to Swedish media reports. https://www.thelocal.se/20131008/50658 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:34:00 +0200 50658 The European Commission announced on Monday that researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg would be granted 1 billion euros for their work in developing graphene. https://www.thelocal.se/20130128/45862 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:00:00 +0100 45862 The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for their "groundbreaking" experimentation in quantum optics. https://www.thelocal.se/20121009/43710 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:52:00 +0200 43710 Australia's newest Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt assumed it was an elaborate undergraduate joke when he heard a Swedish voice on the line informing him that he had a "very important call" on Tuesday night. https://www.thelocal.se/20111005/36548 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:17:00 +0200 36548 Three US researchers have been jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae". https://www.thelocal.se/20111004/36532 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:53:00 +0200 36532 Two researchers based at the University of Manchester in the UK have been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on graphene. https://www.thelocal.se/20101005/29430 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:21:00 +0200 29430 Three researchers are to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20091006/22496 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:15:00 +0200 22496 Two researchers from Japan and an American colleague have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. https://www.thelocal.se/20081007/14812 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:27:00 +0200 14812 An American and two Russian researchers have earned a major Swedish scientific award for their work on black holes and the early universe, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20080117/9685 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:33:00 +0100 9685 Kai Siegbahn, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981, has died at the age of 89, the Swedish TT news agency reported on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.se/20070804/8098 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:00:00 +0200 8098