Nobel Prize

Interview transcript Dr Frederick Sanger, welcome to this Nobel interview. You are one of the very few persons that have been awarded Nobel Prize twice. So I suppose that maybe you know how to do it. Many people would like to get Nobel Prize but they don’t. Can you share your secret…

Interview transcript Dr Frederick Sanger, welcome to this Nobel interview. You are one of the very few persons that have been awarded Nobel Prize twice. So I suppose that maybe you know how to do it. Many people would like to get Nobel Prize but they don’t. Can you share your secret…

Interview transcript Professor Paul Berg, welcome to Stockholm and to the Nobel interview. Paul Berg: Thank you. You received another prize in 1980 for your pioneering work on recombinant DNA, the molecule that governs chemical machinery in all living cells, so in some sense one may say that you are the father…

Interview transcript Professor Robert Merton, very welcome to this interview. It’s a pleasure to have you with us. Today during your speech you outlined something that I found very interesting. You were saying that households and individuals have had, over the last couple of years, to take much more serious economic decisions…

Interview transcript Professor Leon Lederman, welcome to Stockholm and to this Nobel interview. You have won the Nobel Prize in 1988 and this was for your research in elementary particle physics and the last century was really a very exciting time in physics and some people maybe say that all the major…

Interview transcript Heinrich Rohrer, welcome to Stockholm and to this interview with Nobelprize.org. You were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Ernst Ruska and Gerd Binnig for your joint work in developing microscopy. And in particular you and Gerd Binnig received the prize for your design of the scanning…

Interview, 2025 What do you remember most from the call from Stockholm announcing you as Nobel Prize laureate? Where were you when you got the call? Torsten Wiesel: I was in Boston on Beacon Hill the morning I received “the call” from a news agency. I had made arrangements to play tennis with a colleague…

Interview transcript Professor Aaron Klug, welcome to Stockholm and to this Nobel interview. You are one of more than 20 Nobel Prize winners that have done a big part of the research work in Cambridge. Aaron Klug: Yes. Can you tell us about your first years there? Aaron Klug: Well, I came…

Interview transcript Professor, thank you for seeing us today, we are very happy to meet you here in Lindau. John B. Fenn: It is my pleasure. What was it, maybe back in your childhood, that made you interested in science in specific? John B. Fenn: Well my father was an electrical engineer…

Transcript from an interview with Eric R. Kandel, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, on 13 June 2008. Interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. So, Eric Kandel, welcome to this interview with Nobelprize.org. Eric Kandel: Well thank you Adam, I’m very pleased to…