Interview with 2013 Laureate in Economic Sciences Robert J. Shiller, 6 December 2013. Could you please explain your Prize awarded work for 13-14-year olds? Robert J. Shiller: I was part of a three-man award. It’s a little hard because I think that the descriptions they might give will be different than mine, so I have…

Interview with Lars Peter Hansen on 6 December 2013 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your awarded work for young students? Lars Peter Hansen: The way that I like to describe my work is that it’s developing statistical methods to do something without having to do everything. Let me elaborate a…

Interview with Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on 12 December 2013. What were you doing when you got the message of being awarded the Nobel Prize? Ahmet Üzümcü: I was at a meeting with members of the delegations and the meeting starts at 10 o’clock and we got…

Interview with Thomas C. Südhof, 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? Thomas Südhof: To actually explain that one has to sort of introduce the subject in little broader terms. A person, I think most people would agree, is a person…

Interview with Randy W. Schekman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? Randy Schekman: My work involves studying how protein molecules, which are the machines that operate life, how some of them are shipped outside of a cell, Almost all…

Interview with James E. Rothman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? James E. Rothman: To the young teenagers and other students when you study science and you start thinking about the human body. One of first things that you…

Interview with Jean Tirole on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work in simple terms? Jean Tirole: My work, which has been awarded the prize, is on the regulation of industries. The regulations of industries include what we call anti-trust which mean that…

Interview with May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for 13-14 year olds? Edvard Moser: We have discovered parts of an internal map that we have in our brain, a map that tells the rest of the brain…

Interview with 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Arieh Warshel on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for 13-14 year olds?  Arieh Warshel: To explain to 13-14 year olds … I essentially try to give my lecture to my granddaughter who is maybe…

Interview with Gregg Semenza on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What was your childhood like? Gregg Semenza: I have two brothers and two sisters, so we have a large family and especially when we were young of course that involved a lot of chaos, and we had a lot of…