Interview with James E. Rothman on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work to young students? James E. Rothman: To the young teenagers and other students when you study science and you start thinking about the human body. One of first things that you…

Interview with Jean Tirole on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work in simple terms? Jean Tirole: My work, which has been awarded the prize, is on the regulation of industries. The regulations of industries include what we call anti-trust which mean that…

Interview with May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for 13-14 year olds? Edvard Moser: We have discovered parts of an internal map that we have in our brain, a map that tells the rest of the brain…

Interview with 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Arieh Warshel on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for 13-14 year olds?  Arieh Warshel: To explain to 13-14 year olds … I essentially try to give my lecture to my granddaughter who is maybe…

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 Michael Levitt on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? Michael Levitt: Firstly we have been helped very much by the Nobel Committee because they really helped to define a certain part of work and I would say that…

Interview with Jean-Pierre Sauvage on 6 December 2016, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, welcome to the Nobel Week in Stockholm. Jean-Pierre Sauvage: Thank you. All Nobel Laureates are asked to bring an artefact to donate to the Nobel Museum here in Stockholm, what did you bring? Jean-Pierre Sauvage: I brought some…

Interview with William D. Nordhaus on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s the source of your passion for economic sciences? William D. Nordhaus: So my passion for economics. It comes from many sources; I think the biggest one is for the benefit of humanity or mankind as we used to…

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…