First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and its Nobel Committee for physics for awarding me the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. I am well aware of how difficult it is to select no more than three laureates out of the far greater number of nominees. So, this award is the more valuable.
Personally, I have two additional motives for appreciating the award of the Prize. Firstly, I am already 87, the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously, and posthumous recognition is not all that so significant to me since I am an atheist. Secondly, the 1958 and 1962 Nobel Prizes in Physics were awarded, respectively, to Igor' Evgen'evich Tamm and Lev Davidovich Landau. Outside of high school, the notion of a teacher is very relative and is quite often applied by formal criteria: for instance, it is applied to the supervisor in the preparation of a thesis. But I believe that the real title of teacher can be given only appropriately to those who have made the greatest impact on ones work and whose example one has followed. Tamm and Landau were precisely these kind of people for me. I feel particularly pleased, because in a sense I have justified their good attitude toward me. Of course, the reason lies not with the Prize itself, but with the fact that my receiving the award after them signifies following their path.
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