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,” ...
6 Okt 20218min
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
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 yield the best surprises. When it comes to figuring ...
4 Okt 20215min
