Nobel Prize

Telephone interview, October 2015 “You have to understand what makes people tick” Telephone interview with Professor Angus Deaton following the award of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, 12 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief…

Interview transcript We are now in Lindau, a small town in southern Germany, and this is the celebration, the 50th anniversary of the Nobelprizeträgertagungen and I am here with Professor Donald Glaser. Professor Glaser could you tell us a little bit why did you become physicist? Donald Glaser: As…

Interview transcript Welcome to this interview, Professor Murray Gell-Mann. Murray Gell-Mann: Well, thank you. Actually I don’t know, maybe I could speak Swedish to you, because the story goes that when you got the news about the Nobel Prize in 1969, in October, you prepared your speech in Swedish for the December…

Interview transcript Professor Leon Cooper, welcome to Lindau. It’s very nice to have you here. Leon N. Cooper: I’m very happy to be here. Nice cool weather you have. I know. I believe it’s the fifth time you are visiting Lindau, and this very particular meeting where scientists and young scientific students…

Interview transcript Professor Josephson, welcome to this interview. We’re very happy to have you here today. You were very young when you got the prize, only 33, and when you made your major discovery you were 22. In which way has this had an impact on your life, to start off with?…

Interview transcript Professor, very nice to meet you. It has been a few years since you received the Nobel Prize in 1973. Leo Esaki: That’s right. I would like to start off by asking you what made you interested in physics at the very beginning. Why did you choose that subject? Leo…

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Interview transcript Welcome to Stockholm, and to this Nobel interview, Professor Steven Weinberg. I have talked to some of your colleagues here, and everybody says that you’re the one to blame, or the one that brought light to the community of physicists when you wrote your book on cosmology in the early…

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