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Transcript from an interview with Olga Tokarczuk
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Interview with Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? Olga Tokarczuk: It was really a very good beginning for a writer. The books were very present in our house. I saw from the beginning how my parents are discussing…
moreTranscript from an interview with Angus Deaton
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Interview with Angus Deaton on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? Angus Deaton: What’s my story? What brought me to this scientific field? A lot of luck, a lot of accidents. I certainly didn’t start out to study economics. I think, you know, when I was in high…
moreTranscript from an interview with Tasuku Honjo
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Interview with Tasuku Honjo on 6 December 2018, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you receive the news that you had been awarded the Nobel Prize? Tasuku Honjo: The first message I received from another foundation was by a telephone call. It was around 5 p.m. of October 1st. Actually people told…
moreTranscript from an interview with Richard H. Thaler
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Interview with Richard H. Thaler on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Did you ever think that you would get the call from Stockholm? Richard H. Thaler: You are not really allowed to think about it, but one can always hope. A friend of mine told me that he had won…
moreTranscript from an interview with Donna Strickland
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Interview with Donna Strickland on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you become interested in science? Donna Strickland: I have been asked that question about how I got interested in science quite a bit. I think it just is my education system. It’s hard to say, I mean, my…
moreTranscript from an interview with Sir Gregory P. Winter
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Interview with Sir Gregory P. Winter on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. I’m Greg Winter. I’m the Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, one quarter share. When did you decide that you wanted to become a scientist? Sir Gregory P. Winter: I started to take an interest in chemistry because I think…
moreTranscript from an interview with Esther Duflo
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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…
moreTranscript from an interview with Arthur B. McDonald
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Interview with Arthur B. McDonald on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? What brought you to science? Arthur B. McDonald: What brought me to science started back in high school when I had an interest in science, but really a more substantial interest in mathematics which was generated…
moreTranscript from an interview with Peter Higgs
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Interview with Peter Higgs on 6 December 2013 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? Peter Higgs: Imagine a snowfield, and that is an analogous to this background field throughout all the universe, this affects the way that people crossing it in different ways…
moreTranscript from an interview with François Englert
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Interview with François Englert on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? François Englert: First I will tell them or remind them if they know a little bit that all the matter that we have around us is composed of atoms.…
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