Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize Conversations “If I get an award, I have an opportunity to thank people. I also thank the people who tried to make my life miserable because they made me work harder and become more resilient” Working harder and becoming more resilient seems to be the story of Nobel Prize laureate Katalin Karikós’s life.…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Moungi Bawendi on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Moungi Bawendi: I was born in Paris and my father was a mathematician – became a professor in mathematics. My mother was a high school…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Drew Weissman on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? Drew Weissman: It’s a great question. I’m 64 years old, so there might’ve been when I was five and I just don’t remember anymore. Probably one…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Ferenc Krausz on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Ferenc Krausz: It always fascinated me to enter into a world which is not known to humans, and where we have the chance to discover…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Louis Brus on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. When did you first become interested in science? Louis Brus: I was a small boy in the 1950s in the United States, and at that time, there was a strong effort to encourage…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Katalin Karikó on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? Katalin Karikó: Honestly, I have to say my high school teacher, who said that ‘You could be a scientist’, and he said it so many times…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Pierre Agostini on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where did your passion for science come from? Pierre Agostini: I think research is the thing that attracted me to science because before that I didn’t have such an interest. Experiments; doing experiments…

Nobel Prize lessons

Nobel Prize lessons

Interview with the 2023 economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. When did you know you wanted to pursue economic sciences? Claudia Goldin: I always knew that I wanted to be a scientist, but I didn’t know what economics was. I didn’t know what economics was…