Nobel Prize

Interview with the 2024 chemistry laureate John Jumper, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did your interest in science come about? John Jumper: My childhood, I grew up in Arkansas just outside Little Rock. I grew up on a farm, not really a working farm, but you know, horses,…

Interview with the 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you first learn about your Nobel Prize?  Geoffrey Hinton: I was more or less asleep in a hotel room in California, and I had by phone upside down on the bedside table with the…

Interview with the 2024 physics laureate John J. Hopfield, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How big a role did physics play in your childhood?  John J. Hopfield: I don’t know if you have children, but young children learn what their parents do. Parents do something highly visible, a fireman…

Interview with the 2024 literature laureate Han Kang, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What influence did your family have on your interest in writing?  Han Kang: My father is a writer as well. The most important thing was I could grow up with the books because my house was…

Interview with the 2024 chemistry laureate Demis Hassabis, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What sparked your interest in science and AI?  Demis Hassabis: My interest in science and AI started with games. I started to play chess from a very young age. I was actually four years old when…

Interview with the 2024 chemistry laureate David Baker, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What influence did your parents have on you? I grew up in a very very happy family. My parents were very interested in education. We talked about all kinds of things and it was really a…

Interview with the 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How has your childhood influenced your scientific path?  Victor Ambros: I think my childhood experiences were definitely influential in the sense that growing up on a farm in a large family you had a lot of…

Interview with the 2024 economic sciences laureate Daron Acemoglu, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for economic sciences come from? I got into economics as a teenager. Growing up in Turkey, I became interested in social issues, especially I was troubled by the fact that the…

Interview, November 2014 Interview with the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum on 6 November 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden. Rigoberta Menchú Tum answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): What has the prize meant for your role as a peace maker? How did you receive the news about your…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2025 “I’m not one of these people who keeps the phone on, and the champagne in the fridge” Peter Howitt certainly didn’t seem to be expecting the news of his 2025 prize in economic sciences. In this call recorded just after the announcement, he talks to the Nobel Prize’s Adam…