Interview with Ferid Murad (56 minutes)

Interview with the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Ferid Murad, at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Ferid Murad talks about his natural knack for science, why it took 100 years to discover how nitroglycerine works in the body (20:28), how light helped to shine light on nitric oxide (31:59), and why it is difficult for medical students nowadays to receive the research training that he received (49:20).

Credits: Ladda Productions AB (camera)