Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Alain Aspect on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Alain Aspect: When I was a kid, I lived in a small village in France. At that time it was very rural, so there were…

Interview with the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dan Shechtman, 6 December 2011. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. Daniel Shechtman, welcome to Stockholm. Dan Shechtman: Thank you. You are here to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for your discovery of quasicrystals. It seems to me that there is a…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Moungi Bawendi on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Moungi Bawendi: I was born in Paris and my father was a mathematician – became a professor in mathematics. My mother was a high school…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Drew Weissman on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? Drew Weissman: It’s a great question. I’m 64 years old, so there might’ve been when I was five and I just don’t remember anymore. Probably one…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Ferenc Krausz on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Ferenc Krausz: It always fascinated me to enter into a world which is not known to humans, and where we have the chance to discover…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Louis Brus on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. When did you first become interested in science? Louis Brus: I was a small boy in the 1950s in the United States, and at that time, there was a strong effort to encourage…

Interview with the 2006 Laureate in Economics, Edmund S. Phelps, 6 December 2006.  Professor Edmund Phelps, who is the prize winner in economics this year, the Riksbank Prize in Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel. Welcome to Stockholm firstly. Edmund Phelps: Thank you. How long have you been spending in Stockholm so far? Edmund Phelps:…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Svante Pääbo on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Svante Pääbo: I really don’t know where my passion from science comes from. I think my initial passion was much more for ancient history…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Katalin Karikó on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What brought you to science? Katalin Karikó: Honestly, I have to say my high school teacher, who said that ‘You could be a scientist’, and he said it so many times…

Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Pierre Agostini on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where did your passion for science come from? Pierre Agostini: I think research is the thing that attracted me to science because before that I didn’t have such an interest. Experiments; doing experiments…