Nobel Prize

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…

Interview, February 2021 Photo courtesy of University of Alberta “We’re all on a learning curve” Nobelprize.org interviewed Michael Houghton on 1 February 2021. We spoke with him about his journey into science, his advice for students and the importance of persistence. Nobel Minds 2020 Five of the 2020 Nobel Laureates met digitally on 10…

Interview, March 2021 Photo courtesy of Rockefeller University “Try and find something that you have a passion for” Nobelprize.org met virologist and dog lover Charles Rice on 11 March 2021. We spoke about his path into science, what advice he can give to younger researchers and how he received the news about his Nobel Prize.…

Interview, December 2020 Harvey Alter in December 2020 during an interview with nobelprize.org @ Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Anna Sjöström Douagi “I became the poet laureate of hepatitis” Nobelprize.org interviewed Harvey J. Alter on 11 December 2020. We spoke with him about receiving the Nobel Prize, his journey in science and the roles humour and…

Interview with Eugene F. Fama on 6 December 2013 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your awarded work for young students? Eugene F. Fama: If I would explain my work, I started back in 1962 working on the general topic is how do prices incorporate new information. It’s called the efficient…