Nobel Prize

What is it that makes a dedicated scientist out of a kid with an everyday background? Is it the ungovernable forces that seem to shape all our lives, or is it the development of our own curiosity and tastes that tips the balance of randomness? I’ve always been puzzled by those questions and can’t claim…

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Interview transcript Professor Leon Lederman, welcome to Stockholm and to this Nobel interview. You have won the Nobel Prize in 1988 and this was for your research in elementary particle physics and the last century was really a very exciting time in physics and some people maybe say that all the major…

Interview transcript Heinrich Rohrer, welcome to Stockholm and to this interview with Nobelprize.org. You were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Ernst Ruska and Gerd Binnig for your joint work in developing microscopy. And in particular you and Gerd Binnig received the prize for your design of the scanning…

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Question: When was Marie Curie born? Answer: Marie Curie was born on 7 November 1867. Question: When did she die? Answer: Marie Curie died on 4 July 1934, in Savoy, France. She died of aplastic anaemia, a blood disease that often results from exposure to large amounts of radiation. Question: Where was she born? Answer:…

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