“I may be very, very lucky so far” Telephone interview with Satoshi Ōmura following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 5 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. [Satoshi Ōmura] Hello, is this Satoshi Ōmura. [Adam Smith] Hello, my name is Adam Smith, calling…

Transcript of the interview I’m very pleased to have an opportunity to interview you, John Polanyi, at the Lindau meeting of the Nobel prize winners this 50-year anniversary. And John, you have a family background that I think is slightly unusual from other Laureates I’ve interviewed. Your father was a very famous…

Interview transcript Dudley Herschbach, we are sitting here in your office in the chemistry department at Harvard, where you’ve been since 1963 when you became professor here. Dudley Herschbach: Yes, although I was here earlier as a graduate student as well, I got here in 1955 as a graduate student. Exactly, you’re…

Interview transcript Ferid Murad, welcome to this interview with Nobelprize.org. Could we begin by you telling us a little about how you became a scientist in the first place? Ferid Murad: Thank you, I’m pleased to be here. I had a knack as a youngster for mathematics and science, I really enjoyed…

Interview transcript Zhores Alferov, Jack Kilby and Herbert Kroemer, welcome to the Nobel e-museum and to this conversation, and congratulations to the Nobel Prize in Physics that you received just three days ago. You have changed the world, the world will never be the same again, can we agree on that? Zhores? Zhores Alferov:…

Interview transcript Zhores Alferov, Jack Kilby and Herbert Kroemer, welcome to the Nobel e-museum and to this conversation, and congratulations to the Nobel Prize in Physics that you received just three days ago. You have changed the world, the world will never be the same again, can we agree on…

Interview transcript Zhores Alferov, Jack Kilby and Herbert Kroemer, welcome to the Nobel e-museum and to this conversation, and congratulations to the Nobel Prize in Physics that you received just three days ago. You have changed the world, the world will never be the same again, can we agree on that? Zhores? Zhores Alferov:…

Interview transcript Professor Phillip Sharp, welcome to Stockholm and to this Nobel interview and I think that we will start from the beginning. Phillip Sharp: It’s always a good place to start. You start your autobiography writing these words “A sense of place was and remains an important part of my life”…

Interview transcript Professor, I want to say thank you very much for coming to this interview today. Norman F. Ramsey: Happy to be here. I would like to start off by asking you, you are now in your 90s and you’re still working, I believe. Norman F. Ramsey: I’m almost in my…

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel interview, Professor François Jacob. You have written earlier that the Nobel Prize has changed your life, not only in a positive way, you also realised that it put some kind of burden on your back. François Jacob: The group we had in the Pasteur Institute with…