Nobel Prize

Interview, March 2021 Paul R. Milgrom outside his home in Palo Alto. Photo credit: Andrew Brodhead/Stanford News Service “Don’t waste your time with things that aren’t going to matter” On 10 March 2021 nobelprize.org spoke to Paul R. Milgrom via zoom on how his life has changed since the announcements in October, what unique item…

Interview, February 2021 Robert B. Wilson with his Prize medal and diploma. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Elena Zhukova “I encourage young people to just have a little bit of curiosity” Nobelprize.org spoke to economist Robert Wilson on 3 February 2021 about teaching future laureates, collaborating with fellow laureate Paul Milgrom and dealing with failure.…

“The world needs a good message right now” Telephone interview with David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme, following the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on 9 October 2020. The interviewer is Olav Njølstad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. David Beasley: Hello? Olav Njølstad: Yes, hello, is this Director Beasley speaking?…

Nobel Minds 2020 Five of the 2020 Nobel Laureates met digitally on 10 December 2020 and talked about their research and careers in the roundtable discussion, ‘Nobel Minds’, moderated by Cecilia Gralde. The laureates discussed the theories, discoveries and research behind their awards, and the value of science in dealing with the global pandemic.…

Telephone interview, October 2020 https://youtu.be/0FIFQR56TyQ “It’s too new … it’s too early here” Telephone interview with Louise Glück immediately following the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 October 2020. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. “My first thought was ‘I won’t have any friends,’ because most…

Interview, February 2021 Jennifer Doudna with a model of CRISPR-Cas9. Photo: UC Berkeley photo by Stephen McNally “Embrace your interests, your passions, and really give it your all!” Nobelprize.org spoke to biochemist Jennifer Doudna on the International day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2021. Her collaboration with fellow laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier and…

Interview, December 2022 Interview with the 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, Emmanuelle Charpentier, recorded in Stockholm on 12 December 2022. Emmanuelle Charpentier answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Where does you passion for science come from – Why were you drawn to biology? – Was there a…

Interview, March 2021 Reinhard Genzel Photo credit: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching “One day I was playing with the spectrometer and boy, did I get the full 15 kilovolts!” Nobelprize.org spoke to Reinhard Genzel on 9 March 2021. He told us about his childhood interest in science and sports as well as which…

Interview, March 2021 Roger Penrose showing his Nobel Prize medal. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Fergus Kennedy “I used to think Nobel Laureates were other people” Nobelprize.org met physicist Roger Penrose on 4 March 2021. He spoke about growing up, how his passion for maths developed and why he finds it so surreal to be…

Interview, January 2025 “As a scientist, make sure students become critical thinkers”  If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? On 29 January 2025, Andrea Ghez was joined by students from all over the world for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Ghez gave her…