Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize Talks: Eric R. Kandel Released 2014-06-05 ‘The artist is a scientist.’ Eric Kandel sees the divide between art and science as artificial. In this episode, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, discusses his exploration of learning and memory and how the fields neuroscience, psychology and art are all interrelated. He also…

Interview transcript Professor Zewail, let me first congratulate you to this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for your pioneering work on femtosecond spectroscopy. Would you like to tell how you got started in this interesting field that you have developed? Ahmed Zewail: Well, you know, Professor Forsén, you know everybody thinks some…

Interview transcript Thank you for coming to this interview and I’m sure this question has been put to you so many times before, but I’m going to do it anyway. The question is, of course, when you were out driving the car and you realised that you’d cracked it, you know that…

Transcript from an interview with Roger D. Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, on 6 December 2006. Interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Roger Kornberg, welcome back to Stockholm. Roger Kornberg: Thank you. I gather you know the town quite well having been here…

Nobel Prize Talks: Roger D. Kornberg Released 2014-04-24 This conversation with Roger Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was recorded during the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative events in Gothenburg. Here he discusses the importance of language, the benefits of frequent failure, and how he developed the art of focusing deeply on a problem. [qbank-video legacy_id=”168″…

Transcript from an interview with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, on 12 December 2006. Interviewer is Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist. First of all, welcome to this interview. Muhammed Yunus: Thank you. I’m very honoured to meet you. What did you think when the phone…

Nobel Prize Talks: Muhammad Yunus Released 2014-05-28 Rather than ask whether people are ‘creditworthy’, should we ask whether banks are ‘peopleworthy’? Muhammad Yunus, awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, sees a capitalist system where the rich get richer while large parts of the world’s population live under difficult conditions. In this conversation he talks about…

Transcript from an interview with Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature, on 6 December 2006. Interviewer is Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. My name is Horace Engdahl, I am the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish academy, and here beside me is Mr…

Interview transcript My name is Horace Engdahl, I am the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, and I welcome here today in the studio Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul. V. S. Naipaul: Thank you. Nobel Laureate in Literature of the year 2001. Sir Vidia, if you try to think back to your beginnings as…

Interview transcript (English translation) Hello, I am Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. Today’s guest is the Nobel Literature Prize winner, Günter Grass, and we are very pleased today to have the opportunity to ask Mr Grass a few questions. In this I have the assistance of a colleague. My…