Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize Talks: Tim Hunt Released 2014-06-12 “If we really understood things, there would be no sense of discovery” Tim Hunt, awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, looks upon biology in much the same way as life: in many cases we don’t really have a clue what’s going on, but we can…

Nobel Prize Talks: Bruce A. Beutler Released 2014-06-19 Imagine deciding what you want to do with your life by age seven or eight, being certain that you will succeed, and then having that vocation propel you to the point when you eventually receive the news that you’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize. That was Bruce…

  Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Since the start of the Nobel Foundation the professorial staff of the Karolinska Institute has chosen the prizewinners in Physiology or Medicine. This year the Karolinska Institute has been reorganized…

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Interview, September 2017 Shinya Yamanaka. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud “I can see any failure as a chance” Shinya Yamanaka is a runner, a father and the man who first created stem cells from normal body cells. A pioneer of biomedical research, he describes how he was determined to find success in the face…

Interview transcript [John Gurdon] Hello [Adam Smith] Hello, may I speak to Sir John Gurdon please? [JG] Yes, this is John Gurdon speaking. [AS] Oh hello, my name is Adam Smith. I’m calling from the Nobel Prize website in Stockholm.…

Ralph M. Steinman was born in Montreal, Canada, on 14 January 1943, the second of four children. His father Irving, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, and his mother Nettie owned a department store in Sherbrooke near Montreal. His father wanted him to continue in the family business, but in high school Ralph became interested…

Interview transcript [Jules Hoffmann] Hello? [Adam Smith] Hello, this is Adam Smith, from Stockholm. [JH] Hello, Adam. [AS] Hello. So, again, welcome back to France. And, you must have stepped from one media storm in China to another media storm here? [JH] Sort of, yes! [AS]…