Transcript from an interview with 2010 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki on 6 December 2014. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki, welcome to Stockholm and Nobel week. Professors Negishi and Suzuki, you have just arrived from Japan where…

“Embrace your interests, your passions, and really give it your all!” We spoke to biochemist Jennifer Doudna on the International day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February. Her collaboration with fellow laureate and her reaction to receiving the Nobel Prize were two topics that were up for discussion. Why did you decide to…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/OnL9CzwuaTU Watch a video clip of the 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Jennifer A. Doudna, receiving her Nobel Prize medal and diploma from Swedish Honorary Consul General Barbro Osher during a ceremonial presentation in Berkeley, California, USA, on 8 December 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/EhoVcgbAIG0 Watch a video clip of the 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Emmanuelle Charpentier, receiving her Nobel Prize medal and diploma during a ceremonial presentation at the Swedish Ambassador’s Residence in Berlin, Germany, on 7 December 2020.

Summary I was born (14 April 1951) in Leicester, England but spent most of my childhood in the Gold Coast (later Ghana). The family returned to England in 1964, settling in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. There I went to the Royal Grammar School, which developed my interests in chemistry and biology and set me on a path to…

Early life I was born March 10, 1941 to Albert Mark Smith II (March 2, 1908 to February 3, 1978) and Jessie Patton Biggs Smith (September 14, 1909 to June 14, 2000). My brother Mark (A. Mark Smith III) was born December 29, 1942 and my sister Helen (now Helen Boyd) was born June 22,…

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I was born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 25, 1956, misshapen after my mother’s twenty-four-hour labor and with no hair. My father called me his ‘Swan’ (until that nickname was swapped for ‘Vampira’ when I was a teenager). William Howard Arnold and Josephine Inman Routheau, both twenty-five, already had two-and-a-half-year old Bill when I…

The Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, on 10 December every year – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. At the ceremony, the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Prize in Economic Sciences are awarded to the Nobel Laureates. This year, the award ceremony…

Professor Claes Gustafsson delivering the presentation speech for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Dan Lepp English Presentation Speech by Professor Claes Gustafsson, Member of the ; Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2020. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, The fertilised…