Nobel Prize

Interview with 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine John O’Keefe, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your awarded work in easy-to-understand terms. One of the fundamental things that humans and animals do, is find their way around the world. So, to do that they need to know…

Interview with William E. Moerner on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you explain your work in easy-to-understand terms. The work that I did to receive the Nobel Prize, involved detecting single molecules, individual molecules. What you want to think about, is that a single molecule is incredibly tiny, just…

Interview with James P. Allison on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What triggered your interest in researching a new cancer therapy? My personal experience with cancer did indeed get my attention, let’s put it that way. My mother died when I was about ten years old of lymphoma. I was…

Interview with George P. Smith on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. I’m George Smith and I’m one of the recipients of the Chemistry Prize in 2018. Where do you get your passion for science? George P. Smith: Originally I would say that I had a passion for nature, especially animals.…

Interview with William C. Campbell on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? William C. Campbell: I came to science I think later than a lot of people certainly nowadays, because I know that I had not heard of science until I was thirteen/fourteen years old because…

Interview with  Gérard Mourou on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Gérard Mourou: I am Gérard Mourou. I’m from France and my field is lasers. What are the benefits of working in an international setting? Gérard Mourou: I think that I always believed that science should be used to unify people…

Interview with J. Michael Kosterlitz on 6 December 2016, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Michael Kosterlitz, welcome to Nobel Week. And you brought some artefacts for the museum, what did you bring? Michael Kosterlitz: I brought some things representing my two passions in life, or my two passions in life at the time.…

Interview with Tomas Lindahl on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? What brought you to science? Tomas Lindahl: What brought me to science? My early education and I started out as a medical student in Stockholm after going to a gymnasium in a suburb of Stockholm. And the…

Interview with Hiroshi Amano on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What were you doing when you heard you had been awarded the Nobel Prize? When there were the announcements, I was on a plane from Japan to Frankfurt, that transit. When I took out from the plane, I saw many…

Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What does the Nobel Prize mean to you? Kazuo Ishiguro: Until October it was something that very great people, and in my imagination I always thought older people, won. It was not anything I would win. I am going to…