Nobel Prize

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel E-Museum and also to this interview, Professor Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon. I would like to congratulate you to the Nobel Prize. It’s a prize of the scientific community to the most prominent scientists in the community, I would say. And I would like you to…

Interview transcript On behalf of the Nobel e-Museum, I have the pleasure of welcoming this year’s winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The winners are Professor George Akerlof from the University of California Berkeley; Michael Spence, Stanford University; and Professor Joseph Stiglitz from…

Interview transcript On behalf of the Nobel e-Museum, I have the pleasure of welcoming this year’s winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The winners are Professor George Akerlof from the University of California Berkeley; Michael Spence, Stanford University; and Professor Joseph Stiglitz from…

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Interview transcript [Unknown] Riikka Marjamäki. [Adam Smith] Oh hello, it’s Adam Smith calling from the Nobel Foundation web site in Stockholm. [Unknown] Hello. The President is sitting next to me and I’ll give the phone to him. [AS] Thank you very much indeed, that’s splendid. [Martti Ahtisaari] Hallo. [AS]…

Interview transcript I am pleased to be sitting here with Rudolph Marcus on the 26th of June, the year 2000, which is actually the first day of the Nobel Prize Tagungen in Lindau which is actually the 50th anniversary of these days here. Let me first ask you that you were actually…

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…