Effective reading, speaking, writing for senior science students

Contents
Предисловие........................................................................................................................................... 4
Unit 1.
Physics and Information Technology.
Heterostructures in Electronic Devices — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 ........... 6
Unit 2.
Neutrinos from the Sun and Space — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 ....................... 21
Unit 3.
Superconductors and Superfluids — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003......................... 32
Unit 4.
The Standard Model and the Four Forces.
Quantum Chromodynamics — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 ..................................... 41
Unit 5.
The Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005.......... 54
Unit 6.
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006............ 68
Unit 7.
Giant Magnetoresistance — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 ........................................... 79
Unit 8.
Spontaneous Broken Symmetry in Subatomic Physics —
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 ..................................................................................................... 87
Unit 9. Telecommunications Revolution.
The Charge‐Coupled Device (CCD) — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 ...................... 99
Unit 10. Graphene — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010........................................................ 117
Unit 11. The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe —
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011....................................................................................................... 126
Unit 12.
A New Era of Experimentation with Quantum Physics —
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012....................................................................................................... 135
Unit 13.
The Origin of Mass of Subatomic Particles.
The Higgs Boson — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 ............................................................ 141
Unit 14.
Blue Light‐Emitting Diodes — The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 ..................................... 150
Texts for rendering.......................................................................................................................................... 160