Nobel Prize

Interview, November 2020 Carl Wieman Photo: Andrew Brodhead Carl Wieman 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. In this interview he talks about better teaching methods, what COVID-19 has…

Interview, June 2008 Interview with the 2005 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Roy Glauber, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, 30 June 2008. The interviewer was Adam Smith, then the Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Roy Glauber talks about how he () became interested in theoretical physics, the unique environment working on the…

Interview transcript Why don’t we start and say that this interview is in the Insel Halle during the Lindau meeting and I’m Sten Orrenius. And I have the pleasure of carrying out this discussion with Professor Christian de Duve who received the Nobel Prize in 1974 for discoveries concerning the structural and…

Interview transcript Welcome to this interview with this year’s Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology as it’s called and welcome to you gentlemen, Paul Nurse, Lee Hartwell and Tim Hunt and of course once again congratulations to the prize, you must have heard it thousands of times. What about your stay in…

Interview transcript Welcome to this interview with this year’s Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology as it’s called and welcome to you gentlemen, Paul Nurse, Lee Hartwell and Tim Hunt and of course once again congratulations to the prize, you must have heard it thousands of times. What about…

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Interview transcript Professor Alexei Abrikosov, and Tony Leggett, welcome to the Nobel e-Museum and also to this interview. We’re very happy to have you here. I’d like to ask you the first question. What are the sources of inspiration to you, as a scientist, Dr Leggett? Anthony J. Leggett: I think that’s…

Interview transcript Professor Ginzburg, welcome to the Nobel e-Museum. We are very happy to have you here. You have a very long career in science behind you, I would say, so my first question would be what is your most exciting memory of life in science? Vitaly Ginzburg: It is difficult to…

Interview transcript “Man is but a worm,” that was the satirical, ironic comment that was given to Charles Darwin when he presented his theory of evolution. The same quotation was used in the by Robert Horvitz, and I suppose, Robert Horvitz, that there was a hidden meaning in you showing that picture…

Interview transcript “Man is but a worm,” that was the satirical, ironic comment that was given to Charles Darwin when he presented his theory of evolution. The same quotation was used in the by Robert Horvitz, and I suppose, Robert Horvitz, that there was a hidden meaning in you showing that picture…