Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize Conversations “I am fundamentally a professor. I love teaching and explaining difficult things” Ever wondered how to boil an egg to perfection? In this podcast conversation, physicist Alain Aspect shares his best advice on how to cook the perfect egg. Together with the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith, he also speaks about his love…

13 December 2025 Norwegian Nobel Committee expresses relief at the release of Ales Bialiatski The Norwegian Nobel Committee expresses its profound relief and heartfelt joy at the release of Ales Bialiatski, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022, from prison in Belarus. His freedom is a deeply welcome and long-awaited moment. He had been serving a…

Nobel Prize Conversations “It was almost an accident that I ended up in economics” Meet economist Ben Bernanke in a podcast conversation. Bernanke tells us about his childhood interest in the origin of words, which ultimately led him to win spelling competitions as a child. He also speaks about economics and how that field unifies…

Nobel Prize Conversations “The first thing I did to see if it at all would have a chance was to buy a piece of liver in the food store close to the institute and just dry it in the laboratory” In a podcast episode with medicine laureate Svante Pääbo, he tells us about the start…

Nobel Prize Conversations “I was just curious about everything” Meet economist Philip Dybvig in a podcast episode. He tells us about his endless curiosity and how his parents encouraged his interest in the world from an early age. In his childhood home music played an important role and Dybvig shares how he and the rest of…

Nobel Prize Conversations “The main goal is to make discoveries and gift them to humanity” “Your purpose as a scientist is not to achieve fame or money, that is not your purpose, those might be side effects and good for you, that could be wonderful for you but it is a side effect, it is…

Nobel Prize Conversations “Whatever honour you get, the most interesting is still what goes on in the fume hood” “My daughter was sitting on the second or third row and I could see that she was crying. And tears actually are contagious. So I was almost crying when I had to go up and receive…

Nobel Prize Conversations “I think economics is getting closer and closer to being a respectable science” “I think economics is getting closer and closer to being a respectable science. Even when we were not the most respectable science, we still needed to keep pushing forward because the topic actually matters to the planet, to the…

Watch the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony from the Oslo City Hall, Norway, 10 December 2022.

Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from Konserthuset Stockholm (the Stockholm Concert Hall) in Sweden on 10 December 2022.