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Andrea Ghez: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
Meet astrophysicist Andrea Ghez, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of ou…
3 years, 11 months ago
Kip Thorne: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
What costs a billion dollars and takes 50 years to build and perfect? LIGO: A machine to detect gravitational waves. In this encore presentation of a…
3 years, 11 months ago
First reactions | Ben Bernanke, prize in economic sciences 2022 | Telephone interview
“What we’re talking about here is credit.” — In this conversation, recorded the day after the announcement from Stockholm, Ben Bernanke stresses the …
4 years ago
First reactions | Philip Dybvig, prize in economic sciences 2022 | Telephone interview
“When I woke up I had what seemed like thousands of messages” — Philip Dybvig’s phone was on silent, so he missed the call from Stockholm. When, half…
4 years ago
First reactions | Douglas Diamond, prize in economic sciences 2022 | Telephone interview
“There are very few people in the world I’d rather be sitting next to when discussing these issues” — In this interview recorded just after the publi…
4 years ago
First reactions | Oleksandra Matviychuk, Nobel Peace Prize 2022 | Telephone interview
“Common people have a much greater impact than they can even imagine” — When asked what brings her hope, Oleksandra Matviychuk replies, “Ordinary peo…
4 years ago
The Call from Oslo to Center for Civil Liberties, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"It is incredible" — Before the public announcement of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Olav Njølstad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, called O…
4 years ago
First reactions | Barry Sharpless, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 | Telephone interview
“You should be drawn to uncertainty” — Barry Sharpless quotes Einstein when asked about his daring approach to choosing problems: “If at first the id…
4 years ago
First reactions | Carolyn Bertozzi, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 | Telephone interview
“When the world is in trouble, chemistry comes to the rescue” - As just illustrated by the Covid pandemic, says Carolyn Bertozzi, “Chemistry is such …
4 years ago
First reactions | Morten Meldal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 | Telephone interview
“Reality is much more complex than we, as chemists, are able to imagine” — In the call recorded just after he had heard that he had been awarded the …
4 years ago