First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 “I will try to get some sleep, but I don’t know if it’s possible” News of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry gave David Baker’s household a very early wake up call. Here, just after the prize announcement, he talks about the exciting potential of building brand new proteins,…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 “It’s absolutely extraordinary” John Jumper had just heard the news of his 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. “I thought I had a 10% chance,” he reveals. To save his nerves, his plan had been to sleep in until after the announcement, which didn’t quite work out. In the interview,…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 “The best scientists paired with these kinds of tools will be able to do incredible things” Demis Hassabis – just after he had received the call from Stockholm – reflects on building the right research environment and the interplay between AI and individual scientists. Interview transcript Demis Hassabis: Hello,…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 “I’m still somewhat in shock” “You have to build up from the bottom.” In this interview shortly after the announcement, John J. Hopfield talks about how he found out about the prize when he was going through his e-mails. ”It didn’t sink in until I got to the fourth e-mail!” From…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 “How could I be sure it wasn’t a spoof call?” 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton received the phone call from Stockholm in the early hours in a hotel room in California, and multiple Swedish accents helped reassure him that his Nobel Prize in Physics was real. In this interview…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 ”A celebration of the way of doing science”  Victor Ambros speaks about the joy of basic research and the ever-expanding fascination of RNA. Recorded just after he found out about the prize, we also discover how the news was broken to the new laureate by his son, who began…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 “It’s going to be a fun ride!”  “I heard what sounded like an authentic call from the Nobel Committee!” 2024 medicine laureate Gary Ruvkun might have received a prank call or two in the past, but this one was genuine. Minutes after hearing the news, he talked about the pleasure…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics John Clauser on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? John Clauser: Oh, I think that’s very clear. My dad was a scientist and when I was a kid, he was a professor, in fact…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Alain Aspect on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Alain Aspect: When I was a kid, I lived in a small village in France. At that time it was very rural, so there were…

Interview with the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dan Shechtman, 6 December 2011. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. Daniel Shechtman, welcome to Stockholm. Dan Shechtman: Thank you. You are here to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for your discovery of quasicrystals. It seems to me that there is a…