Nobel Prize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-6f1IPOm5c Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 to Louise Glück, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 8 October 2020. After the announcement Anders Olsson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, presented the laureate in Swedish and English and answered questions from the audience.

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFKNDVmx6k Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4m380V-ulA Immediately after the announcement, Professor Ulf Danielsson, Member of the Nobel Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTu6uOWLKR4 Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General for the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, on 5 October 2020. Interview about the awarded work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU_a2oXMnI8 “This virus has been a plague … and still is” Immediately after the announcement, Professor Thomas Perlmann…