Nobel Prize Conversations ”Pursuing of expertise doggedly can’t be the goal for everyone because being specialised means losing some breadth of understanding. We need both kinds of people” In this podcast episode recorded in 2014 economist Robert Shiller speaks about technology and the role he thinks it will have in the future. He also shares…

Nobel Prize Conversations “It’s the insight, the work, the way you give yourself to the story that matters” Listen to a heartwarming conversation with Canadian ’master of short stories’ and literature laureate Alice Munro. This conversation between the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith and Munro took place soon after she was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize…

Interview with Eugene F. Fama on 6 December 2013 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your awarded work for young students? Eugene F. Fama: If I would explain my work, I started back in 1962 working on the general topic is how do prices incorporate new information. It’s called the efficient…

Interview with Martin Karplus on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? Martin Karplus: Actually, I have a niece who is 13 years old who is with us here, and we talked a little about it. It turns out at least…

Interview with 2013 Laureate in Economic Sciences Robert J. Shiller, 6 December 2013. Could you please explain your Prize awarded work for 13-14-year olds? Robert J. Shiller: I was part of a three-man award. It’s a little hard because I think that the descriptions they might give will be different than mine, so I have…

Interview with Lars Peter Hansen on 6 December 2013 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your awarded work for young students? Lars Peter Hansen: The way that I like to describe my work is that it’s developing statistical methods to do something without having to do everything. Let me elaborate a…

Interview with Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on 12 December 2013. What were you doing when you got the message of being awarded the Nobel Prize? Ahmet Üzümcü: I was at a meeting with members of the delegations and the meeting starts at 10 o’clock and we got…

Interview with Thomas C. Südhof, 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? Thomas Südhof: To actually explain that one has to sort of introduce the subject in little broader terms. A person, I think most people would agree, is a person…

Interview with Randy W. Schekman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? Randy Schekman: My work involves studying how protein molecules, which are the machines that operate life, how some of them are shipped outside of a cell, Almost all…

Interview with James E. Rothman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? James E. Rothman: To the young teenagers and other students when you study science and you start thinking about the human body. One of first things that you…