Nobel Prize

Interview, December 2024 Interview with the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in physics John J. Hopfield on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. John J. Hopfield answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): – How big a role did physics play in your childhood? – Is constant…

Interview, December 2024 Interview with the 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Geoffrey Hinton answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): – How did you first learn about your Nobel Prize? – What was it like growing up in…

Interview, December 2024 Interview with the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Victor Ambros on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Victor Ambros answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): – How has your childhood influenced your scientific path? – Where does your passion…

Interview, December 2024 Interview with the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Gary Ruvkun on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Gary Ruvkun answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): – Where does your passion for science come from? – What fascinates you about…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics John Clauser on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? John Clauser: Oh, I think that’s very clear. My dad was a scientist and when I was a kid, he was a professor, in fact…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Alain Aspect on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Alain Aspect: When I was a kid, I lived in a small village in France. At that time it was very rural, so there were…

Interview with the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dan Shechtman, 6 December 2011. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. Daniel Shechtman, welcome to Stockholm. Dan Shechtman: Thank you. You are here to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for your discovery of quasicrystals. It seems to me that there is a…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Moungi Bawendi on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Moungi Bawendi: I was born in Paris and my father was a mathematician – became a professor in mathematics. My mother was a high school…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Drew Weissman on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? Drew Weissman: It’s a great question. I’m 64 years old, so there might’ve been when I was five and I just don’t remember anymore. Probably one…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Ferenc Krausz on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Ferenc Krausz: It always fascinated me to enter into a world which is not known to humans, and where we have the chance to discover…