Interview transcript Professor Robert Huber, thank you for joining us here in Lindau. Today and during the Lindau Meeting there are many opportunities for young students to meet great scientists. What does it give you? Robert Huber: I like to interact, to speak with students, and I just like to encourage them…

Interview transcript Professor Kohn, thank you for seeing us today, it’s very nice to meet you. You got the Prize in Chemistry 1998 and that took a few … that was quite a number of years after you did your remarkable discovery. How have you dealt with this prize, this award and…

Interview transcript Dr Richard Ernst, welcome to this Nobel interview. You come from Zurich and from the very famous school there, University ETH where also have studied for about 100 years ago. But today you are very critical to the way the university function in the society. What are the major drawbacks…

Interview transcript Tsung-Dao Lee, co-recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Chen Ning Yang, welcome to Stockholm. You are back here in 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that award. Looking back at your being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957, do you think the public perception of…

Interview transcript Thank you Professor for coming to this interview with us. Professor Curl, I believe I read something about you, that you got your first chemistry box when you were quite a small child? Robert F. Curl Jr.: That’s right. Was that how it all started? Robert F. Curl Jr.: Yes,…

Interview transcript Dr Crutzen, I would like to begin to ask you something about your family background, where you grew up and where you went to school and so on? Paul J. Crutzen: I’m born in Amsterdam in 1933; well until 1958 I was basically all the time in Amsterdam. My family…

Interview transcript Professor Veltman, you have long experience of research, teaching and students in the United States, and in Europe, what would you say are the main differences between the United States and Europe in this respect? Martinus Veltman: The main difference, at least in Holland, I think on the average I…

Interview, November 2004 English Interview with Elfriede Jelinek by freelance journalist Marika Griehsel in November, 2004. Why did you become a writer? Who inspired you? Elfriede Jelinek: As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which…

Interview with Naguib Mahfouz by writer and journalist Mohamed Salmawy in March, 2006. Mohamed Salmawy: What did you feel when you knew you had won the Nobel Prize for Literature? Naguib Mahfouz: I felt extreme happiness as well as great astonishment. I never expected to win the prize. During my time Nobel was awarded to…

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