Nobel Prize Conversations “I find solutions to problems by looking at places where nobody else was looking” The creative and poetic chemistry laureate Joachim Frank always aspires to solve problems by looking at places no one has looked before. “Poetry boxing” and photography are essential for his work-life balance as a scientist, hear him speak…

Nobel Prize Conversations ”I immediately fell in love with the idea of the sun and the planet and what is really out there – that is what got me hooked” Listen to a conversation with Kip Thorne, conducted in November 2020, covering ’s importance to the field of science, whether time travel is actually possible,…

Nobel Prize Conversations Nudges, sludges and the connection between stubbornness and success – listen to a conversation with Richard Thaler, conducted in February 2020. His work has helped us to understand how people make choices in the real world and has also given us tools to nudge people towards better decisions. The host of this…

Interview with Richard H. Thaler on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Did you ever think that you would get the call from Stockholm? Richard H. Thaler: You are not really allowed to think about it, but one can always hope. A friend of mine told me that he had won…

Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What does the Nobel Prize mean to you? Kazuo Ishiguro: Until October it was something that very great people, and in my imagination I always thought older people, won. It was not anything I would win. I am going to…

Interview with Jacques Dubochet on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Jacques Dubochet: I heard frequently this term, passion, and it is not quite correct for me. It is just a requirement, it is a need. The need for understanding was my way…

Interview with Kip S. Thorne on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Why did you decide to become a physicist? Kip S. Thorne: I grew up in Logan, Utah, which is high in the Rocky Mountains, altitude nearly 2,000 meters. We had deep snow…

1.Early days I was born in East Orange, New Jersey, on September 12, 1945. My father, Alan, was an actuary for Prudential Life Insurance, where he would spend most of his career. He had graduated from the University of Toronto, majoring in math and physics. Alas, I did not inherit his mathematical prowess. My mother…

Kazuo ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on 8th November 1954. The house he lived in for the first five years of his life had been built in the traditional Japanese style, with tatami mats and sliding shoji screens. Early photographs show Ishiguro as a baby, sitting as formally as he was then able, in…

I remember reading this big book, The Wonders of Life on Earth, when I was eleven or twelve. It said bird migration was controlled by some kind of internal timer, some kind of clock. Some birds, it explained, use the position of the sun to orient their migration, and the clocks in their heads are…