Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Moungi Bawendi on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Moungi Bawendi: I was born in Paris and my father was a mathematician – became a professor in mathematics. My mother was a high school…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Drew Weissman on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? Drew Weissman: It’s a great question. I’m 64 years old, so there might’ve been when I was five and I just don’t remember anymore. Probably one…

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…