Nobel Prize

A Forty Year Journey Reinhard Genzel delivered his Nobel Lecture on Tuesday 8 December 2020. He was introduced by Professor Ariel Gobar. Pdf 2MBCopyright © The Nobel Foundation

Black Holes, Cosmology, and Space-Time Singularities Roger Penrose delivered his Nobel Lecture on Tuesday 8 December 2020. He was introduced by Professor Ariel Gobar. Pdf 4MBCopyright © The Nobel Foundation

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was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on super cooled atoms but over the last three decades he has also been applying a scientific approach to something different: improving education. Ahead of on the challenge of learning, we spoke to him about better teaching methods, what COVID-19 has taught us and how…

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…

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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…

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