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 Committee, on being awarded the 2021 Nobel peace Prize jus...
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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. After all, he says, “Europeans streaming out into the ...
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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 MacMillan: “It’s the stuff that should never work w...
6 Okt 20217min
First reactions | Benjamin List, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 | Telephone interview
“Making molecules is like creating something beautiful” – Benjamin List was sitting in a café with his wife, Dr Sabine List, when the call from Stockholm came. “We looked at each other in disbelief,” ...
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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 reflects on the value of asking basic questions. But wha...
5 Okt 20216min
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, has been the challenge that has occupied Syukuro Man...
5 Okt 20217min
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 surprise is evident in this brief interview with Adam Smi...
5 Okt 20215min
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 key to David Julius’ success in unlocking the mysteri...
4 Okt 20217min
