Nobel Prize

Interview transcript [Dan Shechtman] Dan speaking. [Adam Smith] Oh, hello. This is Adam Smith from Nobelprize.org. Am I speaking to Professor Shechtman? [DS] Yes, speaking. What country are you calling from? [AS] From Sweden. From … [DS] Oh, yes, yes. [AS]   … The official website…

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Tawakkol Karman did not submit an autobiography.

Thomas J. Sargent did not submit an autobiography.

My four grandparents all immigrated as young adults to the United States from Eastern European Jewish towns and villages early in the twentieth century. This was a generation of poor but optimistic intellectuals, who expected that the newly rationalist world would use education and creativity to leave behind boundaries, borders, and religion to build a…

Adam G. Riess did not submit an autobiography.

Brian P. Schmidt did not submit an autobiography.

Dan Shechtman did not submit an autobiography.

Jules A. Hoffmann did not submit an autobiography.

My grandfathers were both immigrants to the US, one from Estonia, then part of the Russian empire, and the other from England. The Estonian, William Morris Leiserson, was Jewish. He fled Estonia in 1890 at the age of seven, through a forest in the dark of night, with his mother and two brothers. The family…