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…

Interview with F. Duncan M. Haldane on 6 December 2016, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Duncan Haldane, welcome to Nobel Week in Stockholm Duncan Haldane: Thank you. I noticed that you brought an artefact for the museum, what is it? Duncan Haldane: Well, when I initiated the work, which this prize was given…

Interview with Kip S. Thorne on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Why did you decide to become a physicist? Kip S. Thorne: I grew up in Logan, Utah, which is high in the Rocky Mountains, altitude nearly 2,000 meters. We had deep snow…

Interview with Physics Laureate Shuji Nakamura on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What has been the most significant breakthrough in your career? Shuji Nakamura: I think, because in 1993 I could develop the very high efficient blue LEDs that is almost 100 times brighter than all the blue LED. All…

Interview with Takaaki Kajita on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? What brought you to science? Takaaki Kajita: When I was a high school student, I learnt basic physics and I started to get interested in physics. Then I decided to learn physics in undergraduate and I learned…