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Interview transcript Dr Crutzen, I would like to begin to ask you something about your family background, where you grew up and where you went to school and so on? Paul J. Crutzen: I’m born in Amsterdam in 1933; well until 1958 I was basically all the time in Amsterdam. My family…

Interview transcript Professor Veltman, you have long experience of research, teaching and students in the United States, and in Europe, what would you say are the main differences between the United States and Europe in this respect? Martinus Veltman: The main difference, at least in Holland, I think on the average I…

Interview, November 2004 English Interview with Elfriede Jelinek by freelance journalist Marika Griehsel in November, 2004. Why did you become a writer? Who inspired you? Elfriede Jelinek: As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which…

Interview with Naguib Mahfouz by writer and journalist Mohamed Salmawy in March, 2006. Mohamed Salmawy: What did you feel when you knew you had won the Nobel Prize for Literature? Naguib Mahfouz: I felt extreme happiness as well as great astonishment. I never expected to win the prize. During my time Nobel was awarded to…

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Transcript from an interview with Aaron Ciechanover, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Aaron Ciechanover, co-recipient with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose of the 2004 Nobel Prize…

Interview, June 2020 Aaron Ciechanover © Nobel Media Aaron Ciechanover, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2004, is passionate about the power of science to benefit humankind. In this interview with Adam Smith, chief scientific officer at Nobel Prize Outreach, he shares his views on how science can be used wisely in politics and society, and the…

Interview transcript – Hello Mr. Prescott. My name is Marika Griehsel. Congratulations. I’m calling from Stockholm. How are you? – Excited. I’ve just been calling people. – We have woken you up very early. Have you been able to receive the news that you have received…

Transcript from an interview with the 2004 Laureates in Economic Sciences, Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott, on 11 December 2004. Interviewers are Professor Karl-Gustaf Löfgren and Johanna Åström, post graduate student, Umeå University. We have the pleasure of welcoming the 2004…