Interview with Physics Laureate Shuji Nakamura on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What has been the most significant breakthrough in your career? Shuji Nakamura: I think, because in 1993 I could develop the very high efficient blue LEDs that is almost 100 times brighter than all the blue LED. All…

Interview with Chemistry Laureate Frances H. Arnold on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did it feel to be awarded the Nobel Prize? Frances H. Arnold: I think I was an engineer and a scientist from day one. I was very surprised and overwhelmed, terrified, happy, thrilled and bouncing off…

Interview with Takaaki Kajita on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? What brought you to science? Takaaki Kajita: When I was a high school student, I learnt basic physics and I started to get interested in physics. Then I decided to learn physics in undergraduate and I learned…

Interview with John B. Goodenough on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden What advice would you give to a younger version of yourself? John B. Goodenough: Oh, that’s a difficult question! Cause I hope the younger version of myself that you are talking about would be a little bit brighter than…

Interview, December 2019 https://youtu.be/3TLM-wqAv9I Interview with the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences Michael Kremer on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Michael Kremer answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): How was your interest in science sparked? How did your experimental approach to economics begin? Can…

Interview, December 2019 Interview with the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences Abhijit Banerjee on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Abhijit Banerjee answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): Can you tell us about your childhood? How did you end up in economics? What’s your relationship…

Interview, December 2019 https://youtu.be/RqhW_0H7kw8 Interview with the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences Esther Duflo, on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Esther Duflo answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): How did you become interested in economics? Can you tell us about your relationship with India?…

The call from Oslo, October 2019 https://youtu.be/_D2E3yxeUtg “I was so humbled and thrilled when I just heard the news” Listen to the call between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and Olav Njølstad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, recorded shortly after the public announcement of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Telephone interview, October 2019…

Interview, December 2019 https://youtu.be/gK61qYq7ygc Interview with the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Literature Peter Handke on 9 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Peter Handke answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): How does your writing process begin? What do you need in order to be creative? How…

Interview, December 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-WKofYuJGM Interview with Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Olga Tokarczuk answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? – Did you enjoy school? – What did you…