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Wole Soyinka: Nobel Prize Conversations
“I won the Nobel Prize so I built a much bigger house than I ever planned.” — Wole Soyinka envisioned a small cottage on a large plot of land as a re…
4 years, 10 months ago
Didier Queloz: Nobel Prize Conversations
"When people think about other worlds, they think about other life." Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz was a pioneering explorer of exoplanets – pla…
4 years, 11 months ago
Joachim Frank: Nobel Prize Conversations
“I make discoveries just because of very unique juxtapositions that I have never seen before. So there is some kind of resonance there.” – The creati…
4 years, 11 months ago
Elizabeth Blackburn: Nobel Prize Conversations
Medicine laureate Elizabeth Blackburn has strong feelings about the value of science. In this conversation with Adam Smith, she speaks openly about h…
5 years ago
First reactions | Guido Imbens, prize in economic sciences 2021 | Telephone interview
“The only sad thing is there aren’t more hours in the day!” – After a busy, tiring Sunday, mountain biking with the family, Guido Imbens’ Monday morn…
5 years ago
First reactions | Joshua Angrist, prize in economic sciences 2021 | Telephone interview
“I saw that my phone was flooded with text messages,” says Joshua Angrist, having slept through the calls from Stockholm. In this brief interview he …
5 years ago
First reactions | David Card, prize in economic sciences 2021 | Telephone interview
“I was kinda hoping I might go to sleep!” – David Card had just got his pyjamas on and was heading for bed, after a very late night arrival from a tr…
5 years ago
The call from Oslo to Maria Ressa, 2021 peace laureate
World exclusive: The call from Oslo. Hear Maria Ressa’s reaction when she hears the news from Olav Njølstad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committ…
5 years ago
First reactions | Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 | Telephone interview
“As if there isn’t enough to go around” – “A kind of miserliness,” is how Abdulrazak Gurnah describes the attitude of some in Europe to refugees. Aft…
5 years ago
First reactions | David MacMillan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 | Telephone interview
“We thought it had a very low probability of success” – The best ideas in science are often the ones with the least chance of succeeding, says David …
5 years ago