Nobel Prize Conversations
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Nobel Prize Conversations
Through their lives and work, failures and successes – get to know the individuals who have been awarded the Nobel Prize. The host for this podcast is Adam Smith, who has the happy task of interviewing our Nobel Prize laureates.Sit in on our conversations as we delve into how these personalities fou...
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First reactions | Peter Howitt, prize in economic sciences 2025 | Telephone interview
“I’m not one of these people who keeps the phone on, and the champagne in the fridge.” Peter Howitt certainly didn’t seem to be expecting the news of...
First reactions | Philippe Aghion, prize in economic sciences 2025 | Telephone interview
“Peter, Peter, make yourself available, your phone, they’re trying to reach you!” Listen to Philippe Aghion telling Peter Howitt that the Royal Swedis...
First reactions | Joel Mokyr, prize in economic sciences 2025 | Telephone interview
“I had a whole list of people that I thought were going to win,” says Joel Mokyr, “And I wasn’t on it.” Waking early, he opened up his computer to fin...
First reactions | Michel Devoret, Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 | Telephone interview
“I would say a fundamental discovery really becomes true when you can apply it to something concrete.” In this conversation, recorded after two hectic...
First reactions | Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize 2025 | Telephone interview
“I am just part of a huge movement. I’m humbled, I’m grateful and I’m honoured.” – The announcement of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize came as a huge surpr...
Finding out the news | Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize 2025
“Oh my god… I have no words.” – Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peac...
First reactions | László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 | Telephone interview
“I’m very proud to be in the line of some really great writers and poets.” In this interview, new literature laureate László Krasznahorkai shares his...
First reactions | Susumu Kitagawa, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 | Telephone interview
“This is the mind of the researcher in Japan,” says Susumu Kitagawa, “Don’t switch off the light, even at night.” In this short conversation recorded...
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...
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 bee...
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 brok...
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 h...
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...
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...
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...
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...
John Hopfield: Nobel Prize Conversations
“I’ve never been part of the gang. I was a one-man band playing little tunes.” – Meet physics laureate John Hopfield in a podcast recorded at his cott...
Simon Johnson: Nobel Prize Conversations
"With the great power to invent technology comes a great responsibility." – In this lively and energetic podcast conversation, economic sciences laure...
Gary Ruvkun: Nobel Prize Conversations
“When we're doing genetics, we are tapping into that mythic power of change.” — In this conversation with molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, we discover...
John Jumper: Nobel Prize Conversations
”I really love the notion of contributing something to physics.” — Chemistry laureate John Jumper has always been passionate about science and underst...
Victor Ambros: Nobel Prize Conversations
“The reason why I was doing science all these years is because I just love doing it.”– Medicine laureate Victor Ambros grew up on a farm with seven si...
Daron Acemoglu: Nobel Prize Conversations
"Asking is hard. Once you realise there's an interesting question to develop answers to, it is even harder." – Growing up in Istanbul, Turkey, shaped...
David Baker: Nobel Prize Conversations
"If you imagine each researcher as a kind of a neuron in the communal brain, then people call me a connection machine.” – David Baker is a true believ...
James Robinson: Nobel Prize Conversations
"I just think a book can change your life." 2024 economic sciences laureate James Robinson loves books – he has about 10 000 at home. Growing up witho...
Geoffrey Hinton: Nobel Prize Conversations
"When we remember, what we're doing is just making up a story that sounds plausible to us. That's what memories are." Join your host Adam Smith as he...
First Reactions | James Robinson, prize in economic sciences 2024 | Telephone interview
“Get up, you need to get up! You’ve won the Nobel Prize.” That’s how James Robinson discovered he was a 2024 economic sciences laureate, as his wife,...
First Reactions | Daron Acemoglu, prize in economic sciences 2024 | Telephone interview
“There’s nothing natural about 30-, 40-, 50- fold differences in income per capita in a globalised, connected world.” Daron Acemoglu, economic science...
First Reactions | Simon Johnson, prize in economic sciences 2024 | Telephone interview
“True, genuine, inclusive democracy matters, very clearly.” Simon Johnson, economic sciences laureate 2024, learnt of the award from the congratulator...
First Reactions | Nihon Hidankyo, Nobel Peace Prize 2024 | Telephone interview
“The dream came true!” The prize came as a big surprise, says Masako Wada, a representative from the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, which works...
First Reactions | Han Kang, Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 | Telephone interview
”I’m so surprised and honoured.” 2024 literature laureate Han Kang had just finished dinner with her son at her home in Seoul when she received the ne...
First Reactions | David Baker, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 | Telephone interview
“I got the phone call and my wife promptly started screaming.” News of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry gave David Baker’s household a very early wak...
First Reactions | John Jumper, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 | Telephone interview
“It’s absolutely extraordinary.” John Jumper had just heard the news of his 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he spoke to the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smit...
First Reactions | Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 | Telephone interview
“The best scientists paired with these kinds of tools will be able to do incredible things.” Demis Hassabis, 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, r...
First Reactions | John Hopfield, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 | Telephone interview
“You have to build up from the bottom.” In this interview shortly after the announcement, 2024 physics laureate John Hopfield talks about how he found...
First Reactions | Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 | Telephone interview
“How could I be sure it wasn’t a spoof call?” 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton received the phone call from Stockholm at around 2am in a hotel ro...
First Reactions | Victor Ambros, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 | Telephone interview
“We see it as a celebration of the way of doing science,” says Victor Ambros of his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In this call with the Nobel...
First Reactions | Gary Ruvkun, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 | Telephone interview
“I heard what sounded like an authentic call from the Nobel Committee!” New medicine laureate Gary Ruvkun might have received a prank call or two in t...
Jon Fosse: Nobel Prize Conversations
Is the creative process different in the fields of art, literature and music? In a podcast conversation, literature laureate Jon Fosse speaks about al...
Pierre Agostini: Nobel Prize Conversations
Hear physics laureate Pierre Agostini describe how he found his love of science: ”It was only when I started doing research that I discovered the fun...
Moungi Bawendi: Nobel Prize Conversations
Is it possible to 'see' quantum mechanics in action? In a podcast conversation, chemistry laureate Moungi Bawendi speaks about the incredible gratific...