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  December 12, 1976 I was a very contrary undergraduate more than 40 years ago. It was my habit to register for a course and then to do most of my reading in another field of study. So that when I should have been grinding away at “Money and Banking” I was reading the novels…

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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…

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me. The most influential teachers in my undergraduate years…

Interview, September 2013 Interview with 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 13 September 2013. Mairead Corrigan on what made her believe she could make an impact. Mairead Corrigan on what inspires her. Mairead Corrigan gives advice to a young person who wants to…

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Transcript from an interview with Mairead Corrigan Maguire on 1 September 2006, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Mrs Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, thank you for being with us here today. It’s 30 years since you really really got…

My scientific interests started before my school years, when as a boy of five years I wandered through gardens, fields and woods with my mother’s entomologist-sister, Tante Irene, as we overturned rocks and sought to find how many different plant and animal species of previously hidden life lay before us. We cut open galls to…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET 14 October 1976 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1976 jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek for their discoveries concerning “new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”. The main interest regarding epidemic diseases has concerned different acute diseases at which symptoms…