Nobel Prize

“We did it together, the four of us” Telephone interview with Ouided Bouchamaoui Telephone interview with Ouided Bouchamaoui, President of The Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA), on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, 9 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel…

Interview with the 2005 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock, by Joanna Rose, science writer, 6 December 2005, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Grubbs and Dr Schrock, my congratulations to the Nobel Prize and welcome to this interview and to Stockholm. Richard Schrock: Thank you. Two months…

Interview, February 2022 Photo: Andrew Brodhead, Stanford University. “You need to have trust to be able to do good work” Nobelprize.org interviewed Guido Imbens on 7 February 2022. We spoke with him about how free time can provide space to think and the importance of friendship and trust for a successful collaboration. Telephone interview, October 2021…

Interview, March 2022 Joshua D. Angrist Photo courtesy of the MIT Department of Economics Nobelprize.org interviewed 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. Telephone interview, October 2021 https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bh_CXgAdou8 “My lack of preparation is evidence that I…

Interview, February 2022 David Card. Photo: Jean Smith/UC Berkeley “Most people who are doing economics who are going to be very successful are pretty nerdy” On 9 February 2022, nobelprize.org spoke to economist David Card about his first job, how he copes with failure and diversity in science. Nobel Minds https://www.youtube.com/embed/vI9d4d0ogEY Five of the 2021…

Interview, September 2022 Interview with peace laureate Maria Ressa, September 2022 in Oslo, Norway. Maria Ressa answers the following questions (the links below lead to clips on YouTube): Why did you decide to become a journalist? Why is press freedom so important? What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation? How can we combat disinformation?…

Interview, April 2022 https://www.youtube.com/embed/gu1TqDhnLlw “There are certain moments I think that never, never go away” 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…

Interview, June 2022 “Amazing doesn’t even begin to cover it” If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? High school student Lucas Madrigrano Azeredo met 2021 chemistry laureate David MacMillan 14 June 2022 to talk about life, football and career choices. MacMillan also shared his best advice for…

Interview, January 2024 “Trust your own intuition and ideas” If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? On 23 January 2024, Benjamin List was joined by ten students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a…

Interview, February 2022 Giorgio Parisi teaching Courtesy Giorgio Parisi “If you are confident that you can do something you will do it” Nobelprize.org spoke to Giorgio Parisi on 18 February 2022. Parisi told us about his love of reading, dancing and solving the puzzle that is our world. Telephone interview, October 2021 https://www.youtube.com/embed/GE-qX8mwvuA “There are…