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B y now, I have lived in Northern California for more than half my life, but I remain a native New Yorker in temperament and humor. Born in 1955, I grew up in a seaside Brooklyn neighborhood − immortalized by Neil Simon’s play ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ – that’s been a landing pad for Eastern European…

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess. Professor Walter Rudolf Hess with his wife arrives to Bromma Airport, Sweden, for the Nobel Week, 6 December 1949.

Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 1929. From left: Owen Willans Richardson, physics laureate 1928; Louis de Broglie, physics laureate 1929; Arthur Harden and Hans von Euler-Chelpin, chemistry laureates 1929; Sir Frederick Hopkins, medicine laureate 1929 and Thomas Mann, literature laureate 1929.

Fritz Lipmann receiving his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf on 10 December 1953. Fritz Lipmann’s son Steven admiring his father’s Nobel Prize medal after the award ceremony. From left: Medecine laureate Fritz Lipmann with his wife Elfreda, physics laureate Frits Zernike and chemistry laureate Hermann Staudinger with his wife Magda at the…

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Georg von Békésy (left) and literature laureate Ivo Andric during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, December 1961.

Nobel Prize Conversations  “The best thing was to come up with the experiment itself” In this podcast episode, conducted in May 2022, Ardem Patapoutian tells us about his shock and happiness after receiving the Nobel Prize, or as he puts it: “All of us in science know that the Nobel Prize is a big…

Nobel Prize Conversations  “I didn’t really have a plan for what I wanted to do when I grew up” In this podcast episode, conducted in June 2022,  David Julius speaks about his childhood and how he loved puzzle solving. His father used to tell him that he was great at taking things apart but…

Nobel Prize Conversations “The way you do science should have an intrinsic beauty to it” In this conversation, conducted in October 2021, Elizabeth Blackburn speaks openly about the value of science and how better to engage others in its importance – and beauty. Also up for discussion is our current climate crisis, as Blackburn has…