Interview transcript I just would like you, Professor Penzias, to start off with your great discovery. It has been described as one of the biggest discoveries the last century. It has changed the way we look at the universe. It confirmed the big bang theory. When did you and how did you…

Interview, October 2019 Fraser Stoddart © Nobel Media. Photo: Rasmus Lundgren “You’ve got to break the rules” During his career, which spans more than six decades, Fraser Stoddart has broken rules and, on occasions, upset the research establishment. His journey started in 1942 outside Edinburgh, Scotland, where he spent his early school years also working…

Interview, January 2023 “Be open … and together you can do marvellous things” On 26 January 2023, Ben Feringa, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry 2016, was joined by 14 students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Dr. Feringa gave…

Jean-Pierre Sauvage talks about the artefact he donated to the Nobel Museum, what brought him to science (6:07), when he got the idea that led to the discovery (7:40), chemical machines (10:36), his work in the laboratory (13:12) and about what’s important in life (17:29).

Telephone interview, October 2015 “You have to understand what makes people tick” Telephone interview with Professor Angus Deaton following the award of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, 12 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief…

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Interview transcript We are now in Lindau, a small town in southern Germany, and this is the celebration, the 50th anniversary of the Nobelprizeträgertagungen and I am here with Professor Donald Glaser. Professor Glaser could you tell us a little bit why did you become physicist? Donald Glaser: As…

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