2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript [Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio] Yes, Le Clézio speaking. [Adam Smith] Oh hello, my name is Adam Smith and I’m calling from the Nobel Foundation web site in Stockholm. [J-MGLC] Yes. [AS] And, would you mind if we spoke just for five minutes on the…
moreRoger Y. Tsien – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript [Roger Tsien] Hello. [Adam Smith] Hello, this is Adam Smith from Stockholm. Is that Roger Tsien? [RT] Yeah. [AS] Thank you very much for making time for this. How have the last 24 hours been? [RT] A little bit surreal, but all I can…
moreOsamu Shimomura – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript [Osamu Shimomura] Hello. [Adam Smith] Oh, hello. Professor Shimomura? [OS] Yes. [AS] Hello, this is Adam Smith from the Nobel Foundation web site in Stockholm. Congratulations on the award of the Nobel Prize. [OS] Thank you. [AS] First off, where were you when you heard the news?…
moreTranscript from an interview with Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Interview
Transcript from an interview with Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio on 6 December 2008. Interviewer is Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. My name is Horace Engdahl, I’m the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy and I have here beside me the Laureate…
moreThe Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony and Concert 2008
14 photos To cite this pageMLA style: “Photo gallery – The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony 2008”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.
moreThe Nobel Banquet 2008
16 photos To cite this pageMLA style: “Photo gallery – The Nobel Banquet 2008”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.
morePressmeddelande: Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne 2008
Press release
Swedish 13 oktober 2008 har beslutat att utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2008 till Paul KrugmanPrinceton University, NJ, USA “för hans analys av handelsmönster och lokalisering av ekonomisk verksamhet” Internationell handel och ekonomisk geografi Frågor om handelsmönster och lokalisering har alltid stått i centrum för den ekonomiska debatten.…
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Press release
English 13 October 2008 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 to Paul KrugmanPrinceton University, NJ, USA “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity” International Trade and Economic Geography Patterns of trade and location have always been key issues in the…
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The Laureate Paul Krugman, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, USA Popular science literature Krugman, P (2000): “Geography and Trade”, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Krugman, P & Obstfeld M (2009): “International Economics: theory and policy”, 8th edition, Pearson. 712 pp. Selected scientific articles Krugman, P (1979) Increasing Returns, Monopolistic Competition, and International Trade,…
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Illustrated information
Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 to Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics” and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the…
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