Nobel Prize

Interview with Gregg Semenza on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What was your childhood like? Gregg Semenza: I have two brothers and two sisters, so we have a large family and especially when we were young of course that involved a lot of chaos, and we had a lot of…

Interview with Abhijit Banerjee on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you tell us about your childhood? Abhijit Banerjee: I grew up in a middle-class family in the city of Kolkata. I, just by accident more or less, happened to live right next door to one of the biggest slums…

Interview with James Peebles on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What did you want to be when you were younger? James Peebles: Until I reached university, I was rather directionless. Never a rebel but rather a dreamer. I didn’t pay too much attention to classes, I am sure I annoyed…

Interview with Esther Duflo on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you become interested in economics? Esther Duflo: I grew up in a suburb of Paris, in a family with three children. My father is a mathematician and my mother is a pediatrician. Nothing really remarkable about my childhood…

Interview with John B. Goodenough on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden What advice would you give to a younger version of yourself? John B. Goodenough: Oh, that’s a difficult question! Cause I hope the younger version of myself that you are talking about would be a little bit brighter than…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MF6yXA3_SZ0 Watch the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony from the Oslo City Hall, Norway, 10 December 2019.

https://youtu.be/Z7q2Miw5j3E Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)

https://youtu.be/Z7q2Miw5j3E Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z7q2Miw5j3E Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)

https://youtu.be/Z7q2Miw5j3E Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)