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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As a Nobel Laureate one gets asked many questions, some of them very peculiar indeed, but one frequent question that is quite reasonable is: What advice would you give to a student hoping to embark on a career in theoretical physics? Now I should…

Interview transcript Professor Ginzburg, welcome to the Nobel e-Museum. We are very happy to have you here. You have a very long career in science behind you, I would say, so my first question would be what is your most exciting memory of life in science? Vitaly Ginzburg: It is difficult to…

Credit: ITN Archive/Reuters * The event is described in a book by Abraham Pais, Einstein Lived Here (page 181), published by Clarendon Press in 1994.

Two poems by Derek Walcott Sea Grapes That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home, could be Odysseus, home-bound on the Aegean; that father and husband’s longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa’s name in every gull’s outcry. This…

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Interview transcript “Man is but a worm,” that was the satirical, ironic comment that was given to Charles Darwin when he presented his theory of evolution. The same quotation was used in the by Robert Horvitz, and I suppose, Robert Horvitz, that there was a hidden meaning in you showing that picture…

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Interview transcript “Man is but a worm,” that was the satirical, ironic comment that was given to Charles Darwin when he presented his theory of evolution. The same quotation was used in the by Robert Horvitz, and I suppose, Robert Horvitz, that there was a hidden meaning in you showing that picture…