Physiology or Medicine

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Interview with Thomas C. Südhof, 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? Thomas Südhof: To actually explain that one has to sort of introduce the subject in little broader terms. A person, I think most people would agree, is a person…

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Interview with Randy W. Schekman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? Randy Schekman: My work involves studying how protein molecules, which are the machines that operate life, how some of them are shipped outside of a cell, Almost all…

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Interview with James E. Rothman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? James E. Rothman: To the young teenagers and other students when you study science and you start thinking about the human body. One of first things that you…

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Interview with May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for 13-14 year olds? Edvard Moser: We have discovered parts of an internal map that we have in our brain, a map that tells the rest of the brain…

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Interview with Gregg Semenza on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What was your childhood like? Gregg Semenza: I have two brothers and two sisters, so we have a large family and especially when we were young of course that involved a lot of chaos, and we had a lot of…

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Interview with Tasuku Honjo on 6 December 2018, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you receive the news that you had been awarded the Nobel Prize? Tasuku Honjo: The first message I received from another foundation was by a telephone call. It was around 5 p.m. of October 1st. Actually people told…

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