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The Nobel Prize call
Minutes before a Nobel Prize is announced, the Nobel Prize laureate is called and told they have been awarded the Nobel Prize. These calls can come at unexpected times and reach Nobel Prize laureates in unexpected places. Here are some recollections of those special moments when the ‘magic call’ came through. “Who’s the schnook this…
moreJohn C. Polanyi – Interview
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Transcript of the interview I’m very pleased to have an opportunity to interview you, John Polanyi, at the Lindau meeting of the Nobel prize winners this 50-year anniversary. And John, you have a family background that I think is slightly unusual from other Laureates I’ve interviewed. Your father was a very famous…
moreDudley R. Herschbach – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript Dudley Herschbach, we are sitting here in your office in the chemistry department at Harvard, where you’ve been since 1963 when you became professor here. Dudley Herschbach: Yes, although I was here earlier as a graduate student as well, I got here in 1955 as a graduate student. Exactly, you’re…
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