First reactions | Richard Robson, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 | Telephone interview
“Some people thought it was a whole load of rubbish. But it didn’t turn out that way.” Richard Robson’s new concept for molecular architecture, which occurred to him while building models for teaching...
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First reactions | Omar Yaghi, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 | Telephone interview
“I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.” Omar Yaghi was just changing flights when he had heard the news that he had been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For t...
8 Okt 20259min
First reactions | John Martinis, Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 | Telephone interview
“My wife is very kind to me, so she didn’t wake me up for a couple of hours.” John Martinis was sleeping when news of his Nobel Prize in Physics broke, but his wife Jean was up reading late into the n...
7 Okt 20258min
First reactions | Fred Ramsdell, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | telephone interview
“I was out walking the dogs and she started yelling, and I thought there was a grizzly bear nearby.” Actually, what Fred Ramsdell’s wife was telling him, while on a hiking trip together, was that he h...
7 Okt 202510min
First reactions | John Clarke, Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 | Telephone interview
“I could not imagine accepting the prize without the two of them,” says John Clarke of his fellow Nobel Prize laureates in physics, John Martinis and Michel Devoret. In this short conversation with th...
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First reactions | Mary Brunkow, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 | Telephone interview
“My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep.” Mary Brunkow clearly wasn’t expecting the call from Sto...
6 Okt 20255min
First reactions | Shimon Sakaguchi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 | Telephone interview
"I believe this will encourage immunologists and physicians to apply the T regulatory cells to treat various immunological diseases.” Shimon Sakaguchi, 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medic...
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A Time for Celebration: Adam Smith reveals what really gets our laureates celebrating
In this special bonus episode of Nobel Prize Conversations, we shine a light on the many ways achievements in science are celebrated — from quiet late-night breakthroughs in the lab to the glittering ...
1 Okt 202547min
