Nobel Prize

Your questions to Roger B. Myerson After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Roger B. Myerson, answers a selection of the questions. Question: It seems that regulation theory and applied regulation in general always tries to capture and control some market…

Your questions to Eric S. Maskin After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Eric Maskin, answers a selection of the questions. Question: It seems that regulation theory and applied regulation in general always tries to capture and control some market inefficiency…

Questions and answers After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Sir Martin Evans answers a selection of the questions. Question: If you would sum up the most important characters of a scientist in three words, what would they be? Adam Kebede,…

Questions and answers After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Oliver Smithies answers a selection of the questions. Question: If you would sum up the most important characters of a scientist in three words, what would they be? Adam Kebede, age…

Questions and answers After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Gerhard Ertl answers a selection of the questions. Question: Apart from the development of more effective adsorption catalysts, what in your opinion are the most important applications of the knowledge we…

German Interview with Elfriede Jelinek by freelance journalist Marika Griehsel in November, 2004. Marika Griehsel: Warum schreiben Sie? Woher nehmen Sie Ihre Inspiration? Elfriede Jelinek: Wie man es von den meisten Schriftstellern sagt: Einerseits habe ich schon als Kind immer nur gelesen und war eine Einzelgängerin, was durch meine Eltern und meine Erziehung sehr gefördert…

Interview transcript Professor ‘t Hooft, a key word in physics today, or one of the key words, is unification. There is a lot to talk about unification of forces, according to your mind is unification necessary? Gerardus ‘t Hooft: Usually there is a danger that one overemphasises the need for unification; it’s…

Read the interview Professor Giaever, welcome to us and thank you for being here with us today. When you received the prize back in 1973, you were three laureates who shared it. Ivar Giaever: Yes. You came from very different backgrounds, you hadn’t worked together. How was your reaction when you realised…