Interview with Michel Mayor on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What did you want to be when you were younger? Michel Mayor: When I was a child, I was in fact interested in science from the age of 10 years. Not specifically astronomy, but science. I was really a fan…

Carin Klaesson, Content Manager of Public Programs at the Nobel Prize Museum, sat down to talk to 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden on 28 April 2022. In a wide ranging conversation they spoke about his journey to the Nobel Prize. Abdulrazak Gurnah, such a pleasure sitting here together…

Interview with Joshua Angrist, March 2022 Nobelprize.org interviewed economic sciences laureate Joshua Angrist on 21 March 2022. He told us about his aversion to studying as a youth, thoughts on teaching and friendship with co-laureate Guido Imbens. Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood? Joshua Angrist: I was born in Columbus, Ohio…

Interview with David MacMillan, February 2022 Nobelprize.org interviewed chemistry laureate David MacMillan in February 2022. He told us about his childhood in Scotland, how his brother’s choice to go to university inadvertently led to his career in science and his research group’s love of pranks. Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood.…

Interview with Giorgio Parisi, February 2022 Nobelprize.org spoke to Giorgio Parisi on 18 February 2022. Our physics laureate told us about his love of reading, dancing and solving the puzzle that is our world. Could you tell us a bit about your childhood. Were you always interested in science even as a child? Giorgio Parisi…

Interview with Abdulrazak Gurnah, February 2022 Nobelprize.org spoke to our 2021 literature laureate on 25 February 2022. He told us about his early days as a reader, the importance of stories and how he sees his work as the same as any other type of job. For a written version of this interview please see…

Interview with Ardem Patapoutian, February 2022 On 28 February nobelprize.org spoke to medicine laureate Ardem Patapoutian about his journey to the United States, what it takes to become a successful scientist and his love of playing the trumpet (even though his two cats don’t love it as much). First of all, I want to hear…

Interview with Arvid Carlsson at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 9 April 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Arvid Carlsson, welcome to Stockholm and to this interview with Nobelprize.org. You were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, together with Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard for a quite generally described…

Interview with David Card, February 2022 On 9 February 2022, nobelprize.org spoke to economist David Card about his first job, how he copes with failure and diversity in science. You received the 2021 prize in economic sciences for your “empirical contributions to labour economics.” What was your first real job? David Card with his prize…

Interview with Benjamin List, February 2022 On 8 February 2022, nobelprize.org spoke to chemistry laureate Benjamin List on the meaning of life and how important diversity is in science. He also told us about one of the most beautiful moments in his life – the moment he arrived at his university after finding out he…