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I was born in 1921 in Tokyo and grew up in the provincial city of Fukui. I studied physics at the Imperial University of Tokyo from 1940 to 1942, graduating at the level of M.S. Then I was drafted into an army radar laboratory. After the end of the war, in 1946, I returned to…

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I was born on January 15, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three sons of Vivian and Eli Chalfie (Figure 1). In trying to reconstruct the events that led me to this opportunity to write an autobiographical essay, I realize how much chance, luck, the influence of others, and, in some cases, my own…

Interview transcript [Paul Krugman] Hello. [Adam Smith] Hello. This is Adam Smith from the Nobel Foundation web site in Stockholm. Is that Paul Krugman? [PK] Yes it is. [AS] Congratulations on the award. Quite a time to be awarded the Prize for Economic Sciences. [PK] Yes.…

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A wartime childhood I was born on August 27, 1928, in the town of Fukuchiyama, Kyoto-Fu, Japan. My father Chikara was an army captain of the Fukuchiyama regiment. In the spring of 1933, my father took a post in Manchuria, which was under Japanese occupation. Because there were some insurgents in the Manchurian area, my…

I was born in July 1947 in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, the city which remains my home today. My childhood holidays were, however, spent in the Auvergne countryside in central France, where I was content to spend my days outdoors, observing the wonders of the natural living world. Even the smallest of insects could…