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Nobel Week Dialogue

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Owen Gaffney is chief impact officer at Nobel Prize Outreach.

Owen Gaffney is a writer, analyst and strategist.

He is chief impact officer at Nobel Prize Outreach. Owen co-founded the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and co-leads the Earth4All initiative.

He has held positions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Future Earth, Global Commons Alliance and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.

Nobel Week Dialogue Gothenburg 2025

Meet the laureate

Interview with Frances Arnold

“Science thrives when ideas get exchanged”

The risk of losing free flow of ideas and people is one of the most pressing challenges for science, says 2018 chemistry laureate Frances Arnold. In this interview, she also elaborates on the importance of enzymes in healthcare, the promises of AI and the uses of “useless” knowledge in science.

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Frances H. Arnold delivering her Nobel Prize lecture in chemistry on 8 December 2018 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University.

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