First reactions | Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 | Telephone interview
“The conclusion is, yes, quantum mechanics resists all possible attacks!” — Alain Aspect was trying to find the limit of quantum mechanics, but, as he says in this call with Adam Smith, “I didn’t find...
4 Loka 20228min
First reactions | Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 | Telephone interview
“There were almost always other types of humans around.” In this telephone conversation recorded just after he had heard news of the award of his Nobel Prize, Svante Pääbo reflects on our relationship...
3 Loka 20229min
Laureate origin stories: Adam Smith explores what factors make a Nobel Prize laureate
How do you make a Nobel Prize laureate? In this special bonus episode of Nobel Prize Conversations, we explore the origin stories of these remarkable individuals. This bonus episode features the Nobel...
28 Syys 202247min
Maria Ressa: Nobel Prize Conversations
"We must get up, we must work like maniacs – because time is running out." Maria Ressa speaks passionately as she discusses how authoritarians exploit social media to unravel democracy, what needs to ...
7 Heinä 202239min
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Nobel Prize Conversations
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of ten novels and an emeritus professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the university of Kent. He has been hailed for his ability to convey the immigrant ex...
29 Kesä 202234min
Guido Imbens: Nobel Prize Conversations
In an increasingly chaotic world, how can you learn to concentrate deeply on a single problem? Economic Sciences laureate Guido Imbens found his powers of concentration while getting lost in chess ga...
22 Kesä 202230min
Hartmut Michel: Nobel Prize Conversations
"If somebody tells me 'this is impossible', I always think that it still might be possible – and try to find a way around." Where would the world be, without the scientists who look beyond the convent...
15 Kesä 202231min
David Julius: Nobel Prize Conversations
"I didn't really like school very much. And I was always like a little bit nervous about not doing well." David Julius, the 2021 physiology or medicine laureate, talks about his journey from anxious p...
8 Kesä 202232min
