Interview, October 2019 Fraser Stoddart © Nobel Media. Photo: Rasmus Lundgren “You’ve got to break the rules” During his career, which spans more than six decades, Fraser Stoddart has broken rules and, on occasions, upset the research establishment. His journey started in 1942 outside Edinburgh, Scotland, where he spent his early school years also working…

Interview, January 2023 “Be open … and together you can do marvellous things” On 26 January 2023, Ben Feringa, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry 2016, was joined by 14 students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Dr. Feringa gave…

Jean-Pierre Sauvage talks about the artefact he donated to the Nobel Museum, what brought him to science (6:07), when he got the idea that led to the discovery (7:40), chemical machines (10:36), his work in the laboratory (13:12) and about what’s important in life (17:29).

Telephone interview, October 2015 “You have to understand what makes people tick” Telephone interview with Professor Angus Deaton following the award of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, 12 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief…

Interview transcript We are now in Lindau, a small town in southern Germany, and this is the celebration, the 50th anniversary of the Nobelprizeträgertagungen and I am here with Professor Donald Glaser. Professor Glaser could you tell us a little bit why did you become physicist? Donald Glaser: As…

Interview transcript Welcome to this interview, Professor Murray Gell-Mann. Murray Gell-Mann: Well, thank you. Actually I don’t know, maybe I could speak Swedish to you, because the story goes that when you got the news about the Nobel Prize in 1969, in October, you prepared your speech in Swedish for the December…

Interview transcript Professor Leon Cooper, welcome to Lindau. It’s very nice to have you here. Leon N. Cooper: I’m very happy to be here. Nice cool weather you have. I know. I believe it’s the fifth time you are visiting Lindau, and this very particular meeting where scientists and young scientific students…

Interview transcript Professor Josephson, welcome to this interview. We’re very happy to have you here today. You were very young when you got the prize, only 33, and when you made your major discovery you were 22. In which way has this had an impact on your life, to start off with?…

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