Interview transcript Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour to meet you. Robert Fogel: It’s a great pleasure to be here. I wanted to start off, to ask you a little bit about your background. Your parents were immigrants to the United States in the early 1920s.…

Interview transcript Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Literature Laureate 1991, welcome to our interview. Nadine Gordimer: Thank you. From what origins did Nadine Gordimer come to be born in a gold mining town in South Africa? Nadine Gordimer: The usual sort of background for whites in South Africa. My mother came from England and…

Interview transcript (in French) Bonjour, je m’appelle Horace Engdahl et j’exercise la fonction de secrétaire perpétuel à l’Académie Suédoise, et je souhaite le bienvenu au Lauréat du Prix Nobel de Littérature de l’année 2000, Monsieur Gao Xingjian. Gao Xingjian: Bonjour. Gao Xingjian … Quand on a commencé de vous lire à l’Occident…

Transcript from an interview with Mairead Corrigan Maguire on 1 September 2006, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Mrs Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, thank you for being with us here today. It’s 30 years since you really really got…

Transcript from an interview with Professor Robert W. Fogel at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, September 1-4, 2004. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour…

Your questions to Roger B. Myerson After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Roger B. Myerson, answers a selection of the questions. Question: It seems that regulation theory and applied regulation in general always tries to capture and control some market…

Your questions to Eric S. Maskin After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Eric Maskin, answers a selection of the questions. Question: It seems that regulation theory and applied regulation in general always tries to capture and control some market inefficiency…

Questions and answers After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Sir Martin Evans answers a selection of the questions. Question: If you would sum up the most important characters of a scientist in three words, what would they be? Adam Kebede,…

Questions and answers After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Oliver Smithies answers a selection of the questions. Question: If you would sum up the most important characters of a scientist in three words, what would they be? Adam Kebede, age…

Questions and answers After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Gerhard Ertl answers a selection of the questions. Question: Apart from the development of more effective adsorption catalysts, what in your opinion are the most important applications of the knowledge we…