Nobel Prize

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel interview, Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. You are one of a few French Nobel Prize winners I would say. How did the prize change your life or academic work? Jean-Marie Lehn: It didn’t change my work because when you are a scientist you have your own way of…

The Call from Oslo, October 2016 Telephone interview, October 2016 Transcript of the interview Juan Manuel Santos: Hello. Adam Smith: Good morning President Santos. My name is Adam Smith representing Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Prize in Stockholm. On behalf of all here we would like to…

Interview transcript I just would like you, Professor Penzias, to start off with your great discovery. It has been described as one of the biggest discoveries the last century. It has changed the way we look at the universe. It confirmed the big bang theory. When did you and how did you…

Interview, October 2019 Fraser Stoddart © Nobel Media. Photo: Rasmus Lundgren “You’ve got to break the rules” During his career, which spans more than six decades, Fraser Stoddart has broken rules and, on occasions, upset the research establishment. His journey started in 1942 outside Edinburgh, Scotland, where he spent his early school years also working…

Interview, January 2023 “Be open … and together you can do marvellous things” On 26 January 2023, Ben Feringa, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry 2016, was joined by 14 students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Dr. Feringa gave…

Jean-Pierre Sauvage talks about the artefact he donated to the Nobel Museum, what brought him to science (6:07), when he got the idea that led to the discovery (7:40), chemical machines (10:36), his work in the laboratory (13:12) and about what’s important in life (17:29).

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…