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Interview with David MacMillan, February 2022 Nobelprize.org interviewed chemistry laureate David MacMillan in February 2022. He told us about his childhood in Scotland, how his brother’s choice to go to university inadvertently led to his career in science and his research group’s love of pranks. Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood.…

Interview with Benjamin List, February 2022 On 8 February 2022, nobelprize.org spoke to chemistry laureate Benjamin List on the meaning of life and how important diversity is in science. He also told us about one of the most beautiful moments in his life – the moment he arrived at his university after finding out he…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/a1optxV1xYY Watch a video clip of the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, Benjamin List, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma from Ambassador Per Thöresson during a ceremonial presentation at Harnack House, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in Berlin, Germany on 7 December 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qTDj3t2nO1Y Watch a video clip of the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, David W.C. MacMillan, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma from Ambassador Karin Olofsdotter during a ceremonial presentation at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC, US on 6 December 2021.

I was born in Suita City, Osaka Prefecture, in 1948. My father, Sojiro, was an electrical engineer who worked at a power company. My mother worked at a bank until she married, after which she became a housewife. Suita is located about 10 km north of the center of Osaka City. My home was surrounded by…

I was born on December 22, 1941 in the Carlton suburb of Nottingham in England in the middle of the Second World War. My father, William Stanley Whittingham, was a civil engineer and the first in the family to go to college, and my mother Dorothy Mary (née Findley) was a chemist before marriage. My…

Childhood I was born in Jena, Germany, in July 1922, to American parents, Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and Helen Miriam (Lewis) Goodenough. My father was working on his D. Phil. dissertation on the Church Fathers at Oxford University at the time of my birth. My parents lived in Oxford, England, for three years and my father…

In co-production with the BBC, we are happy and proud to introduce a series of podcast episodes highlighting inspiring work done by members of future generations. The series hopes to showcast our future generation that is walking in the footsteps of the Nobel Prize laureates using innovative and new ways of thinking. ‘Generation Change’ is…