Physics

was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on super cooled atoms but over the last three decades he has also been applying a scientific approach to something different: improving education. Ahead of on the challenge of learning, we spoke to him about better teaching methods, what COVID-19 has taught us and how…

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Interview

Interview, March 2021 Reinhard Genzel Photo credit: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching “One day I was playing with the spectrometer and boy, did I get the full 15 kilovolts!” Nobelprize.org spoke to Reinhard Genzel on 9 March 2021. He told us about his childhood interest in science and sports as well as which…

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Interview

Interview, March 2021 Roger Penrose showing his Nobel Prize medal. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Fergus Kennedy “I used to think Nobel Laureates were other people” Nobelprize.org met physicist Roger Penrose on 4 March 2021. We spoke to him about growing up, how his passion for maths developed and why he finds it so surreal…

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Interview

Interview, December 2022 Interview with the 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Andrea Ghez on 12 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Andrea Ghez answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): How has life changed since you became a laureate? What brought you to science? Did you…

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Prize announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFKNDVmx6k Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4m380V-ulA Immediately after the announcement, Professor Ulf Danielsson, Member of the Nobel Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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