Interview, November 2019 Martin Chalfie addressing students at NPII Canada © Nobel Media. Photo: A. Mahmoud. When Martin Chalfie began his first research project as an undergraduate at Harvard it left him so disheartened that he abandoned his scientific career. Luckily, chance events brought him back into the lab for a summer job, and began…

Nobel Prize Talks: Mario Molina Released 2014-04-11 The vast majority of experts agree that climate change is taking place and that human activity has a role to play. ”The risks are unacceptable”, says Mario Molina, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995, who has chaired a new report on climate change. But the good…

Nobel Prize Talks: Barry J. Marshall Released 2014-03-06 Something of a poster child for self-experimentation, Barry Marshall proved that peptic ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori by actually drinking down a dose of the bacteria himself. But how worried was he at the time? In this conversation the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine…

Nobel Prize Talks: J. Robin Warren Released 2014-05-02 What you see depends on what you look for, and if you really open your eyes, something new may come into view. That was the case for Robin Warren, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, when he recognized bacteria living in the stomach. In this conversation…

Nobel Prize Talks: John C. Mather Released 2014-05-22 Is there life on Mars? NASA researcher John Mather, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 for mapping the traces of the first light emitted by the young universe, believes that where there’s water, there’s likely to be life. And he thinks that the chances of finding…

Nobel Prize Talks: George F. Smoot Released 2014-05-09 How big is the universe? And how do you stay grounded when working in the mind-bending field of cosmology? These are questions for George Smoot, awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explorations of the remnants of the first light emitted by the expanding universe.…

Nobel Prize Talks: Tim Hunt Released 2014-06-12 “If we really understood things, there would be no sense of discovery” Tim Hunt, awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, looks upon biology in much the same way as life: in many cases we don’t really have a clue what’s going on, but we can…

Nobel Prize Talks: Bruce A. Beutler Released 2014-06-19 Imagine deciding what you want to do with your life by age seven or eight, being certain that you will succeed, and then having that vocation propel you to the point when you eventually receive the news that you’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize. That was Bruce…

Interview, December 2013 Interview with 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics François Englert, 6 December 2013. François Englert’s work in simple terms. François Englert on why he went into science. François Englert on his role model. François Englert on breakthroughs in research. François Englert on the standard model. François Englert on…

Interview, September 2013 Interview with 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 13 September 2013. Mairead Corrigan on what made her believe she could make an impact. Mairead Corrigan on what inspires her. Mairead Corrigan gives advice to a young person who wants to…