Interview transcript Thank you Professor for coming to this interview with us. Professor Curl, I believe I read something about you, that you got your first chemistry box when you were quite a small child? Robert F. Curl Jr.: That’s right. Was that how it all started? Robert F. Curl Jr.: Yes,…

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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…