Nobel Prize

Interview, December 2025 Interview with the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Omar Yaghi on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Omar Yaghi answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): Can you tell us about your childhood? What type of child were you? What influence did…

Interview, December 2025 Interview with the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Fred Ramsdell on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Fred Ramsdell answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): What was your childhood like? Do you see any similarities between theatre and science?…

“It’s a lifelong learning process” Eleonora Svanberg, a PhD student in mathematics at the University of Oxford, sits down with 2025 physics laureate John Martinis for a conversation about curiosity, discovery and the future of quantum technology. Martinis reflects on the choices that led him to exploring quantum mechanical behaviour and discusses his groundbreaking work…

First reactions. Telephone interview with John Clarke, October 2025 “None of this work would have happened without the two of them.” In this interview shortly after the prize announcement, the new physics laureate John Clarke is still stunned by the news. He praises his co-laureates John Martinis and Michel Devoret, whom he worked together with…

Interview with the 2006 Nobel Prize laureates in physics, John C. Mather and George F. Smoot on 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. John Mather, George Smoot, welcome to Stockholm. John Mather: Thank you. George Smoot: Thank you very much. When you very kindly spoke to me just after you…

Interview, December 2025 Interview with the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Mary Brunkow on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Mary Brunkow answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): Can you tell us about your childhood? Was there a single defining moment when…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2025 “I believe this will encourage immunologists and physicians to apply the Tregs to treat various immunological diseases” Shimon Sakaguchi, 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine, has always been driven by the desire to find new ways to combat disease. In this conversation with the Nobel Prize’s Adam…

Interview with the 2019 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry M. Stanley Whittingham on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden.  Do you remember a teacher that inspired you?  M. Stanley Whittingham: Two of them in particular got me enthusiastic about science. They were so excited themselves and they really tried to teach…

Interview with the 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, Emmanuelle Charpentier, recorded in Stockholm on 12 December 2022.  Where does your passion for science come from?  Emmanuelle Charpentier: I think it’s a combination of a lot of aspects in my childhood and education, that led me to the science world. Initially, the main interest I…

Interview with the 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Andrea Ghez on 12 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How has life changed since you became a laureate?  Andrea Ghez: The last two years have been very much a rollercoaster. It’s a really interesting time to win the Nobel Prize during 2020…