Nobel Prize Conversations  “Failure is an inevitable part of doing science. Most of what we do fails” Hear Robert Lefkowitz speak about failure and how to best deal with it. In this conversation, conducted in February 2021, Lefkowitz shares his experience of being a top student that all of sudden needed to deal with…

Nobel Prize Conversations Should you be able to buy a kidney? Economic sciences laureate Alvin Roth would call that, and other taboo exchanges, repugnant transactions. Roth pioneered ways of describing outlier markets where prices don’t work, explaining why you can’t buy a job at Google, acceptance at Yale – or a human organ. This Nobel…

Interview with Robert J. Lefkowitz on 10 December 2012 during the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden. Congratulations Professor! I think you must be the happiest laureate I have met. Robert Lefkowitz: Why not? There’s so much to be happy about. It’s just a wonderful experience. I know you have been looking forward to this. This…

Robert J. Lefkowitz (left) and Brian K. Kobilka (right) met with Nobelprize.org’s interviewer Adam Smith (middle) on 6 December 2012. Interview with the 2012 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka, on 6 December 2012. The interviewer is Nobelprize.org’s Adam Smith. Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka, welcome to Stockholm,…

According to Martin Chalfie his first experience with science ended badly because he was too afraid to ask for help.

English 9 October 2012 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012 to Serge Haroche Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and David J. Wineland National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of…

I was born on September 11th 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco, in a Jewish family with mixed Sephardic and Ashkenazi origins. My father’s parents were teachers at the Alliance Israëlite universelle (AIU), which operated a network of schools dedicated to the dissemination of French language and culture throughout Jewish communities in North African and Mid-Eastern countries.…

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Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen; on behalf of Shinya Yamanaka and myself, may I express our profound gratitude to the Karolinska Institutet and to the Nobel Foundation for this pre-eminent honour bestowed on us at this time. Shinya Yamanaka and I must be more different than any other previous…