Nobel Prize

Telephone interview, October 2015 “I am not a cool chronicler. My heart is always there” Telephone interview with Svetlana Alexievich, following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, 8 October 2015. The interviewer is Julia Chayka, and the following transcript is an English translation of the conversation in Russian. Interview…

Interview transcript [Adam Smith] Oh hello, my names Adam Smith, calling from Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Prize in Stockholm [TL] Hello. [AS] Hello. Many congratulations on the award of the Nobel Prize. [TL] Thanks very much. [AS] Could you tell me, how did…

Transcript of the interview [Paul Modrich] Hello. [Adam Smith] Hello, this is Adam Smith. So where am I calling you? [PM] We’re in New Hampshire. We have a little cabin in the woods in New Hampshire and we’re on vacation. Our last day is actually tomorrow. So this was…

Interview transcript [Takaaki Kajita] Hello. [Adam Smith] Oh hello, my name is Adam Smith, I’m calling from Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Prize. Congratulations on the award of this year’s Nobel Prize. [TK] Thank you very much. [AS] How did you hear the news?…

Interview, January 2022 On 27 January 2022 Arthur McDonald was joined by 12 students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Among the questions to McDonald were how he ended up in science, why he choose neutrinos, what keeps him…

“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:…