Interview with  Gérard Mourou on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Gérard Mourou: I am Gérard Mourou. I’m from France and my field is lasers. What are the benefits of working in an international setting? Gérard Mourou: I think that I always believed that science should be used to unify people…

Interview with J. Michael Kosterlitz on 6 December 2016, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Michael Kosterlitz, welcome to Nobel Week. And you brought some artefacts for the museum, what did you bring? Michael Kosterlitz: I brought some things representing my two passions in life, or my two passions in life at the time.…

Interview with Tomas Lindahl on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? What brought you to science? Tomas Lindahl: What brought me to science? My early education and I started out as a medical student in Stockholm after going to a gymnasium in a suburb of Stockholm. And the…

Interview with Hiroshi Amano on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What were you doing when you heard you had been awarded the Nobel Prize? When there were the announcements, I was on a plane from Japan to Frankfurt, that transit. When I took out from the plane, I saw many…

Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What does the Nobel Prize mean to you? Kazuo Ishiguro: Until October it was something that very great people, and in my imagination I always thought older people, won. It was not anything I would win. I am going to…

Interview with Jacques Dubochet on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Jacques Dubochet: I heard frequently this term, passion, and it is not quite correct for me. It is just a requirement, it is a need. The need for understanding was my way…

Interview with Stefan W. Hell on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you deescribe your Nobel Prize-awarded work in simple terms? Stefan Hell: I discovered that a light microscope can see sharper pictures that we believed in the 20th century, more than 100 years. This is important because light microscopy…

Interview with F. Duncan M. Haldane on 6 December 2016, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Duncan Haldane, welcome to Nobel Week in Stockholm Duncan Haldane: Thank you. I noticed that you brought an artefact for the museum, what is it? Duncan Haldane: Well, when I initiated the work, which this prize was given…

Interview with Kip S. Thorne on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Why did you decide to become a physicist? Kip S. Thorne: I grew up in Logan, Utah, which is high in the Rocky Mountains, altitude nearly 2,000 meters. We had deep snow…

Interview with Eric Betzig, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you deescribe your Nobel Prize-awarded work in simple terms? Eric Betzig: My work and the work of my colleagues for this prize is about trying to see small things, particularly living things in cells. So, your body is composed of…