Nobel Prize

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Katalin Karikó on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? Katalin Karikó: Honestly, I have to say my high school teacher, who said that ‘You could be a scientist’, and he said it so many times…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Pierre Agostini on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where did your passion for science come from? Pierre Agostini: I think research is the thing that attracted me to science because before that I didn’t have such an interest. Experiments; doing experiments…

Interview with the 2023 economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. When did you know you wanted to pursue economic sciences? Claudia Goldin: I always knew that I wanted to be a scientist, but I didn’t know what economics was. I didn’t know what economics was…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Anne L’Huillier on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What inspired your passion for science? Anne L’Huillier: I don’t know exactly, it’s a very long time ago, but I was very much inspired by my grandfather on my mother’s side, who was…

Interview with the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Leland H. Hartwell, at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007.  Lee Hartwell, co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Tim Hunt and Paul Nurse, welcome to this interview. If I mention the word mentorship, what…

Gerhard Ertl at his interview with Nobelprize.org in Stockholm, 6 December 2007. Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Gerhard Ertl on 6 December 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Gerhard Ertl, welcome to this interview with Nobelprize.org. You are the 2007 Nobel Laureate in chemistry for your contributions to the…

Richard Roberts during the interview. Interview with the 1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Richard Roberts, at the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Richard Roberts welcome. You were the co-recipient with Phil Sharp of the 1993 prize in physiology or medicine for…

Interview with Robert J. Lefkowitz on 10 December 2012 during the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Sweden. Congratulations Professor! I think you must be the happiest laureate I have met. Robert Lefkowitz: Why not? There’s so much to be happy about. It’s just a wonderful experience. I know you have been looking forward to this. This…

Interview with the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Paul Greengard, 13 June 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Paul Greengard, welcome to Stockholm and to this interview with Nobelprize.org. Paul Greengard: Thank you. It’s been almost eight years since you came to receive your Nobel Prize in the year 2000…

Interview with Tim Hunt at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. Tim Hunt, welcome to this interview with Nobelprize.org. You won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine together with Lee Hartwell and Paul Nurse. Tim Hunt: Correct. And you seem to have been blessed with the lucky chance…