Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Carolyn Bertozzi on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Carolyn Bertozzi: I was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, and I grew up in a household where science was very much a…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Anton Zeilinger on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Anton Zeilinger: My passion for science goes back very, very far. Even as a child, I wanted to know how things work, and I was…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics John Clauser on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? John Clauser: Oh, I think that’s very clear. My dad was a scientist and when I was a kid, he was a professor, in fact…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Alain Aspect on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Alain Aspect: When I was a kid, I lived in a small village in France. At that time it was very rural, so there were…

This biography is intended to talk about how my early life contributed to my development as a scholar. This is necessarily speculative, since I have no evidence of what would have happened if my early life had been different. However, my impression is that my development as a scholar built on using my brain on…

I was born in Chicago in 1953. My maternal grandparents were Catholic. My grandmother, Ethel Elizabeth Houlehan Gunkel, was of Irish descent. She was a strong woman who lived to 100 and was lots of fun. My grandfather, Frederick Peter Gunkel, was of Austrian and German descent. He was the executive hog buyer for Oscar…

“Russia uses information like a weapon of mass destruction” has been fighting for human rights and democracy in Ukraine since 2007. Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the organisation, is spearheading their work documenting Russian war crimes against Ukraine, and pushing back against the deluge of disinformation being used to influence and confuse. Can the tidal wave…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Svante Pääbo on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Svante Pääbo: I really don’t know where my passion from science comes from. I think my initial passion was much more for ancient history…

The Early Years: Birth to High School I was born in a small suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark, on 16th January 1954. I was the first of three children born to my parents, Hanne and Thorkil Meldal. My mother was from the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and was the daughter of Niels…

Iwas born December 13, 1953, in Augusta, Georgia, but spent my childhood and teenage years in Dillon, South Carolina. Dillon, a town of about 6,000 people, lies just west of the Little Pee Dee River, in the northeastern part of the state. When I lived there, the area was mostly dependent on agriculture – cotton…