Interview transcript Professor Bloembergen, welcome to this interview. Thank you for being here with us. Nicolaas Bloembergen: It’s a pleasure to be here. I have read in your autobiography that you must have been a child with a great desire to learn new things. Your siblings had to drag you away from…

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Interview transcript Welcome to this Nobel interview, Professor Torsten Wiesel. You have devoted your long career in science to studies of the visual processing in the brain and now we can say, and we know, that this is not a simple thing, a simple process, rather a result of a long process…

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I was born in 1926 in Windsor, Ontario. Three of my grandparents were also born in Canada: the fourth, my paternal grandfather, emigrated as a child to the U.S.A. from the Bavarian town of Nördlingen. He became a pharmacist and achieved some prosperity by inventing the first process for the mass producing of gelatin capsules.…