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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2000 to Kim Dae-jung for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular. In the course of South Korea’s decades of authoritarian rule, despite…

Nobel Prize Talks: Eric R. Kandel Released 2014-06-05 ‘The artist is a scientist.’ Eric Kandel sees the divide between art and science as artificial. In this episode, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, discusses his exploration of learning and memory and how the fields neuroscience, psychology and art are all interrelated. He also…

Transcript from an interview with Eric R. Kandel, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, on 13 June 2008. Interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. So, Eric Kandel, welcome to this interview with Nobelprize.org. Eric Kandel: Well thank you Adam, I’m very pleased to…

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Prologue: Life in Vienna in the 1930sThere was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career. Rather, my early life was importantly shaped by my experiences in Vienna and I…

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Interview transcript My name is Bertil Holmlund. I am interviewing the two Laureates in Economic Sciences this year: Professor Daniel McFadden from University of California at the Berkley and Professor James Heckman from University of Chicago. They have received the Prize for their contributions to micro econometrics, which is a field on…

Interview transcript My name is Bertil Holmlund. I am interviewing the two Laureates in Economic Sciences this year: Professor Daniel McFadden from University of California at the Berkley and Professor James Heckman from University of Chicago. They have received the Prize for their contributions to micro econometrics, which is…