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 how society must begin to understand just how import...
13 Okt 202142min
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 morning wake-up call came a little after 2am with the n...
11 Okt 20219min
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 describes how he therefore called the MIT Press Dep...
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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 trip, when the call from Stockholm came. This intervi...
11 Okt 20219min
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...
8 Okt 20212min
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 ...
7 Okt 20216min
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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