Nobel Prize Conversations “When I was a young kid, my father would tell me, you can do anything you want when you go to work. The most important thing is to enjoy it. I found that” How can we ensure that knowledge and science is spread globally? Medicine laureate Drew Weissman is an advocate for…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG8totFxL9c “As a scientist I like to be in the laboratory and all of a sudden I was rushed to the spotlight” was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 for her work helping to develop covid vaccines which saved millions of lives worldwide. However misinformation created fear and mistrust in the vaccination…

Nobel Prize Conversations “I think we all have doubts about what we’re doing. I wouldn’t call that failure. It’s a sense that we question our own work” There are many roads one can take in life. But to what extent will your life choices decide what kind of person you become? Listen to our podcast…

Nobel Prize Conversations “I think science, like sports and culture, can play a really unique role to bring together different nations, bring together different cultures, disassemble boundaries and  borders between countries, between different cultures. I think science can make a huge contribution there” Meet 2023 physics laureate Ferenc Krausz in an in-depth conversation with podcast…

Nobel Prize Conversations “If I get an award, I have an opportunity to thank people. I also thank the people who tried to make my life miserable because they made me work harder and become more resilient” Working harder and becoming more resilient seems to be the story of Nobel Prize laureate Katalin Karikós’s life.…

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 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…