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Interview with the 2011 Nobel Laureates in Physics Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess on 6 December 2011. Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, welcome to Stockholm. I gather that this year Stockholm is making itself the city of lights for Christmas which seems very appropriate as a way to welcome three…

Interview with James Peebles on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What did you want to be when you were younger? James Peebles: Until I reached university, I was rather directionless. Never a rebel but rather a dreamer. I didn’t pay too much attention to classes, I am sure I annoyed…

Interview with Donna Strickland on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you become interested in science? Donna Strickland: I have been asked that question about how I got interested in science quite a bit. I think it just is my education system. It’s hard to say, I mean, my…

Interview with Arthur B. McDonald on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? What brought you to science? Arthur B. McDonald: What brought me to science started back in high school when I had an interest in science, but really a more substantial interest in mathematics which was generated…

Interview with Peter Higgs on 6 December 2013 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? Peter Higgs: Imagine a snowfield, and that is an analogous to this background field throughout all the universe, this affects the way that people crossing it in different ways…

Interview with François Englert on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? François Englert: First I will tell them or remind them if they know a little bit that all the matter that we have around us is composed of atoms.…

Interview with  Gérard Mourou on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Gérard Mourou: I am Gérard Mourou. I’m from France and my field is lasers. What are the benefits of working in an international setting? Gérard Mourou: I think that I always believed that science should be used to unify people…

Interview with J. Michael Kosterlitz on 6 December 2016, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Michael Kosterlitz, welcome to Nobel Week. And you brought some artefacts for the museum, what did you bring? Michael Kosterlitz: I brought some things representing my two passions in life, or my two passions in life at the time.…

Interview with Hiroshi Amano on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What were you doing when you heard you had been awarded the Nobel Prize? When there were the announcements, I was on a plane from Japan to Frankfurt, that transit. When I took out from the plane, I saw many…