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 Michael Levitt on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? Michael Levitt: Firstly we have been helped very much by the Nobel Committee because they really helped to define a certain part of work and I would say that…

Interview with Jean-Pierre Sauvage on 6 December 2016, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, welcome to the Nobel Week in Stockholm. Jean-Pierre Sauvage: Thank you. All Nobel Laureates are asked to bring an artefact to donate to the Nobel Museum here in Stockholm, what did you bring? Jean-Pierre Sauvage: I brought some…

Interview with Sir Gregory P. Winter on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. I’m Greg Winter. I’m the Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, one quarter share. When did you decide that you wanted to become a scientist? Sir Gregory P. Winter: I started to take an interest in chemistry because I think…

Interview with William E. Moerner on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you explain your work in easy-to-understand terms. The work that I did to receive the Nobel Prize, involved detecting single molecules, individual molecules. What you want to think about, is that a single molecule is incredibly tiny, just…

Interview with George P. Smith on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. I’m George Smith and I’m one of the recipients of the Chemistry Prize in 2018. Where do you get your passion for science? George P. Smith: Originally I would say that I had a passion for nature, especially animals.…

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 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 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…