Nobel Prize

Interview, December 2022 Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Alain Aspect on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Alain Aspect answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Where does your passion for science come from? – Are you still a reader? -…

Interview, December 2022 Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Svante Pääbo on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Svante Pääbo answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Where does your passion for science come from? – Was there a particular person…

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…

Interview with David Julius, February 2022 We spoke to medicine laureate David Julius about his journey into science, advice for his younger self and why he feels so privileged to be a scientist. David Julius. Photo by Noah Berger Can you tell us a bit about your childhood and what sparked your interest in science?…

Carin Klaesson, Content Manager of Public Programs at the Nobel Prize Museum, sat down to talk to 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden on 28 April 2022. In a wide ranging conversation they spoke about his journey to the Nobel Prize. Abdulrazak Gurnah, such a pleasure sitting here together…

Interview with Joshua Angrist, March 2022 Nobelprize.org interviewed economic sciences laureate Joshua Angrist on 21 March 2022. He told us about his aversion to studying as a youth, thoughts on teaching and friendship with co-laureate Guido Imbens. Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood? Joshua Angrist: I was born in Columbus, Ohio…

Interview with Syukuro Manabe, March 2022 We met and interviewed physics laureate Suki Manabe on 16 March, 2022. We spoke about his endless curiosity, valuable life advice and the topic he has researched for the last six decades – climate change.  Syukuro Manabe, 1997. Photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Robert P. Matthews (1997) I…

Interview with David MacMillan, February 2022 Nobelprize.org interviewed chemistry laureate David MacMillan in February 2022. He told us about his childhood in Scotland, how his brother’s choice to go to university inadvertently led to his career in science and his research group’s love of pranks. Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood.…

Interview with Giorgio Parisi, February 2022 Nobelprize.org spoke to Giorgio Parisi on 18 February 2022. Our physics laureate told us about his love of reading, dancing and solving the puzzle that is our world. Could you tell us a bit about your childhood. Were you always interested in science even as a child? Giorgio Parisi…