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The choice of theme for this Nobel lecture presents some difficulty for me. Usually the lecture is connected with work recognized by the prize. In my case, the prize was awarded for work in low-temperature physics, at temperatures of liquid helium, a few degrees above absolute zero. It so happened that I left this field some 30 years ago, although at the institute under my directorship low-temperature research is still being done. Personally I am now studying plasma phenomena at those very high temperatures that are necessary for the thermonuclear reaction to take place. This research has led to interesting results and has opened new possibilities, and I think that as a subject for the lecture this is of more interest than my past low-temperature work. For, it is said, les extrémes se touchent.
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Kapitza, P.L. (1980). Plasma and the Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction. In: Experiment, Theory, Practice. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8977-1_9
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