Gerhard Ertl at his interview with Nobelprize.org in Stockholm, 6 December 2007. Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Gerhard Ertl on 6 December 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Gerhard Ertl, welcome to this interview with Nobelprize.org. You are the 2007 Nobel Laureate in chemistry for your contributions to the…

Nobel Prize Conversations Belonging to a community is wonderful, but for economic sciences laureate Roger Myerson sharing outside your community is more important. By crossing maths with history and politics, Myerson arrived at new insights about economics, found his love for game theory and moved onwards into new ways to describe situations where markets don’t…

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2007 Buyers and sellers sometimes haggle too hard and therefore fail to trade. Desirable joint projects are sometimes not undertaken because the projects’ beneficiaries fail to agree how the costs should be shared. Sickness insurance, for example, is typically criticized either for offering too little coverage or for inviting misuse.…

The Lost Forest https://youtu.be/aDoanNM7O_s “The local people know of nobody in the surrounding communities who have ever been up to the forest” How would natural habitats develop without human interference? In this documentary we follow an international team of scientists and explorers on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to reach a forest that no human…

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A typical question I am often asked as a Nobel Laureate in physics is “what brought you to physics?” I am not sure but I do know that in school in geography when looking at the presentations of the planets orbiting around the sun I asked myself: “What is the reason for this strange behavior?”…

Lying at the heart of the computer which you are using to read this article is a memory retrieval system based on the discoveries for which the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. They discovered, quite independently, a new way of using magnetism to control the flow of…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Robert Kennedy once said, “Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not.” Those words reveal a deep truth about Kennedy: he was an economist at heart – startling though that may…

In the mid 20th century, economists found themselves in need of a new theoretical framework with which to tackle the comparison of fundamentally different types of economic organization, such as capitalist and socialist institutions. Discussions between the likes of Oskar Lange and led to the development of the idea that economic institutions could be viewed…

For the third successive year, but for only the sixth time since it was initiated in 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been divided equally between an institution and an individual. In awarding the Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body responsible for scientific assessment of climate change, and Albert…