Nobel Prize Conversations  “Science takes time and you need to build up the knowledge so I don’t see why we shouldn’t start right now?” “When people think about other worlds, they think about other life.” Nobel Prize laureate Didier Queloz was a pioneering explorer of exoplanets – planets outside our own solar system –…

Nobel Prize Conversations Esther Duflo’s research improves our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, co-laureates Duflo, Banerjee and Kremer have transformed development economics with their innovative experiment-based approach, which is now a flourishing field of research. Thanks to their work we have clearer perspectives on the core problems within areas such as…

Interview with the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine William G. Kaelin on 8 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Was it your dream to be a Nobel Laureate? Was this my dream to become a Nobel Laureate when I was a child? To be honest, when I was a child,…

Interview with the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics Didier Queloz on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where do you get your passion for science? Didier Queloz: I think my passion for science may be something that I had in the blood early on, because I think I was born very…

Interview with Michel Mayor on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What did you want to be when you were younger? Michel Mayor: When I was a child, I was in fact interested in science from the age of 10 years. Not specifically astronomy, but science. I was really a fan…

Childhood I was born on July 12, 1956 in Flushing, which is a neighborhood in the Borough of Queens, in New York City. My mother’s family was of German-English-Irish descent and lived in Queens, whereas my father’s family was of Italian descent and lived in the Bronx. I was the first born of five children,…

I was born in Suita City, Osaka Prefecture, in 1948. My father, Sojiro, was an electrical engineer who worked at a power company. My mother worked at a bank until she married, after which she became a housewife. Suita is located about 10 km north of the center of Osaka City. My home was surrounded by…

I was born on December 22, 1941 in the Carlton suburb of Nottingham in England in the middle of the Second World War. My father, William Stanley Whittingham, was a civil engineer and the first in the family to go to college, and my mother Dorothy Mary (née Findley) was a chemist before marriage. My…

Biography* My family, childhood and education I was born in 1942 in Lausanne, Switzerland, a small town along Lake Leman where I started elementary school. My father was a police commissioner with positions in different cities. When I was six years old, my family moved to Cully, a superb village in the vineyards along the…

Childhood I was born in Jena, Germany, in July 1922, to American parents, Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and Helen Miriam (Lewis) Goodenough. My father was working on his D. Phil. dissertation on the Church Fathers at Oxford University at the time of my birth. My parents lived in Oxford, England, for three years and my father…