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Interview with Thomas C. Südhof, 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? Thomas Südhof: To actually explain that one has to sort of introduce the subject in little broader terms. A person, I think most people would agree, is a person…

Interview with Randy W. Schekman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? Randy Schekman: My work involves studying how protein molecules, which are the machines that operate life, how some of them are shipped outside of a cell, Almost all…

Interview with James E. Rothman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? James E. Rothman: To the young teenagers and other students when you study science and you start thinking about the human body. One of first things that you…

Interview with May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for 13-14 year olds? Edvard Moser: We have discovered parts of an internal map that we have in our brain, a map that tells the rest of the brain…

Interview with Gregg Semenza on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What was your childhood like? Gregg Semenza: I have two brothers and two sisters, so we have a large family and especially when we were young of course that involved a lot of chaos, and we had a lot of…

Interview with Tasuku Honjo on 6 December 2018, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you receive the news that you had been awarded the Nobel Prize? Tasuku Honjo: The first message I received from another foundation was by a telephone call. It was around 5 p.m. of October 1st. Actually people told…

Interview with 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine John O’Keefe, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your awarded work in easy-to-understand terms. One of the fundamental things that humans and animals do, is find their way around the world. So, to do that they need to know…

Interview with James P. Allison on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What triggered your interest in researching a new cancer therapy? My personal experience with cancer did indeed get my attention, let’s put it that way. My mother died when I was about ten years old of lymphoma. I was…