Nobel Prize

After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Peter Grünberg answers a selection of the questions. Question: Who, or what, inspired you to enter your field of achievement? Bobby Cerini, age 34, Australia Answer: Myself, and my desire to do something significant.…

Interview, June 2000 https://www.youtube.com/embed/8HWimgBrDXg Interview with Edmond Fischer by Hans Jörnvall at the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, June 2000. Edmond Fischer talks about how he came into the field of biochemistry; receiving the Nobel Prize (2:04); how he made his key discoveries (4:53); problems with present day support of science (13:43); and…

Transcript from an interview with Avram Hershko, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Avram Hershko, it is a great pleasure to meet you. Avram Hershko: Same here.…

Transcript from an interview with Paul Krugman, 2008 Laureate in Economic Sciences, on 6 December 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. So Paul Krugman, welcome to Stockholm … Paul Krugman: Thank you. … and congratulations on the award of the Bank of Sweden…

Interview transcript Professor Hartmut Michel, welcome. Hartmut Michel: Thank you. You’ll have a short talk with us here today. It’s a few years now since you received the prize, in chemistry. What is it today that you have use for in what you discovered at that time or what are you using,…

Transcript of the interview [Paul Modrich] Hello. [Adam Smith] Hello, this is Adam Smith. So where am I calling you? [PM] We’re in New Hampshire. We have a little cabin in the woods in New Hampshire and we’re on vacation. Our last day is actually tomorrow. So this was…

“I may be very, very lucky so far” Telephone interview with Satoshi Ōmura following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 5 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. [Satoshi Ōmura] Hello, is this Satoshi Ōmura. [Adam Smith] Hello, my name is Adam Smith, calling…

Interview, November 2004 English Interview with Elfriede Jelinek by freelance journalist Marika Griehsel in November, 2004. Why did you become a writer? Who inspired you? Elfriede Jelinek: As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which…

Transcript from an interview with Aaron Ciechanover, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Aaron Ciechanover, co-recipient with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose of the 2004 Nobel Prize…

Transcript from an interview with the 2004 Laureates in Economic Sciences, Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott, on 11 December 2004. Interviewers are Professor Karl-Gustaf Löfgren and Johanna Åström, post graduate student, Umeå University. We have the pleasure of welcoming the 2004…