Nobel Prize

Interview with William E. Moerner on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you explain your work in easy-to-understand terms. The work that I did to receive the Nobel Prize, involved detecting single molecules, individual molecules. What you want to think about, is that a single molecule is incredibly tiny, just…

Interview with George P. Smith on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. I’m George Smith and I’m one of the recipients of the Chemistry Prize in 2018. Where do you get your passion for science? George P. Smith: Originally I would say that I had a passion for nature, especially animals.…

Interview with Tomas Lindahl on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? What brought you to science? Tomas Lindahl: What brought me to science? My early education and I started out as a medical student in Stockholm after going to a gymnasium in a suburb of Stockholm. And the…

Interview with Jacques Dubochet on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Jacques Dubochet: I heard frequently this term, passion, and it is not quite correct for me. It is just a requirement, it is a need. The need for understanding was my way…

Interview with Stefan W. Hell on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you deescribe your Nobel Prize-awarded work in simple terms? Stefan Hell: I discovered that a light microscope can see sharper pictures that we believed in the 20th century, more than 100 years. This is important because light microscopy…

Interview with Eric Betzig, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you deescribe your Nobel Prize-awarded work in simple terms? Eric Betzig: My work and the work of my colleagues for this prize is about trying to see small things, particularly living things in cells. So, your body is composed of…

Interview with Chemistry Laureate Frances H. Arnold on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did it feel to be awarded the Nobel Prize? Frances H. Arnold: I think I was an engineer and a scientist from day one. I was very surprised and overwhelmed, terrified, happy, thrilled and bouncing off…

Interview with John B. Goodenough on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden What advice would you give to a younger version of yourself? John B. Goodenough: Oh, that’s a difficult question! Cause I hope the younger version of myself that you are talking about would be a little bit brighter than…

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