Interview transcript Dr Crutzen, I would like to begin to ask you something about your family background, where you grew up and where you went to school and so on? Paul J. Crutzen: I’m born in Amsterdam in 1933; well until 1958 I was basically all the time in Amsterdam. My family…

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Interview transcript Professor Veltman, you have long experience of research, teaching and students in the United States, and in Europe, what would you say are the main differences between the United States and Europe in this respect? Martinus Veltman: The main difference, at least in Holland, I think on the average I…

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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, There is something very mysterious about the Nobel Prize. No prize has anywhere near the status of the Nobel prize. Clearly, the Swedes have a mysterious hold on the world. This stimulated me to go digging in Swedish history. In the old times there…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The three of us (Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and myself) thank the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Foundation for honoring us today. And we thank our students and collaborators, whose help was indispensable in our research. But we also…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, One of the things that happen to people who get the Nobel Prize is that they get a lot of media attention. Many interviews. So many that I begin to feel now that I have lost the capacity for spontaneous thought. I…

English 7 December, 2001 Two Worlds This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. It might seem strange that a man who has dealt in words…