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First reactions | Giorgio Parisi, Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 | Telephone interview
“Fundamental science is crucial.” – In this short conversation, recorded shortly after his Nobel Prize in Physics was announced, Giorgio Parisi refle…
5 years ago
First reactions | Syukuro Manabe, Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 | Telephone interview
“Why is this happening?” – Establishing a firm scientific basis for predicting what will happen to the climate, and in the shorter term to weather, h…
5 years ago
First reactions | Klaus Hasselmann, Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 | Telephone interview
“We’ve been warning against climate change for about 50 years or so” – Caught entirely unawares by the call from Stockholm, Klaus Hasselmann’s surpri…
5 years ago
First reactions | David Julius, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 | Telephone interview
“The reason that we were able to do it is because we started looking at the natural world.” – Turning to some natural product pharmacology was one ke…
5 years ago
First reactions | Ardem Patapoutian, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 | Telephone interview
“In science many times it’s the things that we take for granted that are of high interest.” – As Ardem Patapoutian says, sometimes the familiar can y…
5 years ago
Behind the scenes: Adam Smith's October interviews with the new Nobel Prize laureates
Each year in October, Adam Smith takes on the challenge of reaching the brand new Nobel Prize laureates for a telephone interview. In this bonus epis…
5 years ago
Robert Wilson: Nobel Prize Conversations
“I guess I was halfway content with the idea that somehow I’d become an economist.” – 2020 Laureate in Economic Sciences Robert Wilson didn’t really …
5 years, 6 months ago
Frank Wilczek: Nobel Prize Conversations
In the newest episode of ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’, physics laureate Frank Wilczek tells us about his hope to make a mark on the world.
Wilzcek rec…
5 years, 6 months ago
Donna Strickland: Nobel Prize Conversations
2018 Nobel Physics Laureate Donna Strickland knew she wanted to get a PhD, even as a kid. She didn’t know what it was, but if it was the ultimate in …
5 years, 7 months ago
Robert Lefkowitz: Nobel Prize Conversations
“Failure is an inevitable part of doing science.” – Even as one of the best-of-the-best young doctors in the country, Robert Lefkowitz’s research car…
5 years, 7 months ago