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…

Nobel Prize Conversations  “This is the first time we have had a completely novel virus infection and we are trying to vaccinate our way out of it” In this conversation, conducted in January 2021, immunologist Peter Doherty speaks about how we should learn from the current corona pandemic to be better prepared for and…

Nobel Prize Conversations  ”When a politician gets up and says that we are following the science, the question needs to be what science? Because there are more than one scientific conclusion out there” What is life? This is a question that has puzzled scientists for centuries, one of the most famous being . In…

Nobel Prize Conversations “The first thing I did to see if it at all would have a chance was to buy a piece of liver in the food store close to the institute and just dry it in the laboratory” In a podcast episode with medicine laureate Svante Pääbo, he tells us about the start…

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Richard Roberts during the interview. Interview with the 1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Richard Roberts, at the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Richard Roberts welcome. You were the co-recipient with Phil Sharp of the 1993 prize in physiology or medicine for…

Rosalyn Yalow receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Rosalyn Yalow in her lab at the Bronx VA Medical Center

Selman A. Waksman at work in the laboratory, 1953. Selman Waksman and two female associates testing Streptomycin, a bacterial antibiotic produced by the soil actinomycete – chiefly used in the treatment of tuberculosis, at New Jersey Agriculture Experimental Station at Rutgers University.

Robert Koch (third from right) on a German medical expedition to Egypt to study the cholera epidemic, 1884. Robert Koch working in his laboratory at Kimberley, South Africa. Photogravure of gouache painting.