Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Ferenc Krausz on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Ferenc Krausz: It always fascinated me to enter into a world which is not known to humans, and where we have the chance to discover…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Louis Brus on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. When did you first become interested in science? Louis Brus: I was a small boy in the 1950s in the United States, and at that time, there was a strong effort to encourage…

Interview with the 2006 Laureate in Economics, Edmund S. Phelps, 6 December 2006.  Professor Edmund Phelps, who is the prize winner in economics this year, the Riksbank Prize in Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel. Welcome to Stockholm firstly. Edmund Phelps: Thank you. How long have you been spending in Stockholm so far? Edmund Phelps:…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Svante Pääbo on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Svante Pääbo: I really don’t know where my passion from science comes from. I think my initial passion was much more for ancient history…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Katalin Karikó on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? Katalin Karikó: Honestly, I have to say my high school teacher, who said that ‘You could be a scientist’, and he said it so many times…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Pierre Agostini on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where did your passion for science come from? Pierre Agostini: I think research is the thing that attracted me to science because before that I didn’t have such an interest. Experiments; doing experiments…

Interview with the 2023 economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. When did you know you wanted to pursue economic sciences? Claudia Goldin: I always knew that I wanted to be a scientist, but I didn’t know what economics was. I didn’t know what economics was…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Anne L’Huillier on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What inspired your passion for science? Anne L’Huillier: I don’t know exactly, it’s a very long time ago, but I was very much inspired by my grandfather on my mother’s side, who was…

Interview with the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Leland H. Hartwell, at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007.  Lee Hartwell, co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Tim Hunt and Paul Nurse, welcome to this interview. If I mention the word mentorship, what…

Gerhard Ertl at his interview with Nobelprize.org in Stockholm, 6 December 2007. Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Gerhard Ertl on 6 December 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Gerhard Ertl, welcome to this interview with Nobelprize.org. You are the 2007 Nobel Laureate in chemistry for your contributions to the…