Nobel Prize

Interview transcript Very welcome Professor Sakmann. We’re very, very happy to meet you today. We talked about sharing results and friendship and you worked very closely with your fellow colleague. Bert Sakmann: . You said despite the fact that you are not still working from the same physical site you’re still continuing…

Interview transcript Professor Erwin Neher, welcome. My first question would be about the lifestyle as a scientist. Is there a particular lifestyle? Erwin Neher: During these days here in Lindau, I was asked several times by students: What do you do outside science and what other interests do you have? Of course…

Interview transcript Professor Nirenberg, thank you for coming to this interview. Marshall W. Nirenberg: You’re very welcome, you’re welcome. We’re very happy to see you here in Lindau. Marshall W. Nirenberg: I’m glad to be here. Great. I just want to start off right away with the day or the night or…

Interview transcript Professor Nüsslein-Volhard, it’s so nice to have you here in Lindau. What you said today, that scientists have to be humble, could you explain that a little bit more? Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard: Yes. The importance of genes was of course recognised very early on and I think the term gene was…

Interview transcript Thank you, Professor, for coming to this interview today. Sherwood Rowland: I’m pleased to be here. When I was briefed about you and your work from one of the people at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, they said there are a number of people who have done great jobs who…

Interview transcript Dr Ciechanover, Dr Hershko and Dr Rose, my congratulations to the Nobel Prize and welcome to this interview. I know that you two started as medical doctors but you are in science now, and you get the prize for scientific research. How come you left medicine? Avram Hershko: Well, I…

Transcript from an interview with the 2004 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, on 9 December 2004. Interviewer is Joanna Rose, science writer. Dr Ciechanover, Dr Hershko and Dr Rose, my congratulations to the Nobel Prize…

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 Welcome to this interview, Professor William Lipscomb. You were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 25 years ago and it’s quite a long time, and I suppose that you have a long perspective on your field, and I wonder first if the Nobel Prize has changed the path of your…

Interview transcript Welcome to meet the Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for 1997, Dr Stanley Prusiner, the man who did as very few scientists do, but all of them will get Nobel Prizes I think, they really turn the concept we have upside down, and please tell me Dr Prusiner, what…