Physics

Interview

Interview, December 2019 https://youtu.be/KUoSpDxpU3U Steven Chu has devoted a large part of his scientific career to searching for solutions to our climate challenges. Watch this Q&A with Steven Chu on sustainability and climate change, conducted on 7 December 2019. 0.06 – What does sustainability mean to you? 0.34 – What are the present challenges in…

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Biographical

I was born on 27 January 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the first of three children of Kuan Hai Ting, a professor of engineering, and Tsun-Ying Wang, a professor of psychology. My parents had hoped that I would be born in China, but as I was born prematurely while they were visiting the United States,…

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The Nobel Prize laureates are required to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded according to the Nobel Foundation statutes. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize award ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in…

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Interview

Interview transcript [Takaaki Kajita] Hello. [Adam Smith] Oh hello, my name is Adam Smith, I’m calling from Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Prize. Congratulations on the award of this year’s Nobel Prize. [TK] Thank you very much. [AS] How did you hear the news?…

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Interview

Interview, January 2022 On 27 January 2022 Arthur McDonald was joined by 12 students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Among the questions to McDonald were how he ended up in science, why he choose neutrinos, what keeps him…

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