Nobel Prize Conversations

Nobel Prize Outreach AB

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 found their fields of interest — often by coincidence — how they view collaboration, curiosity and failure, and what keeps them going. The laureates share what they have learned from their career and what they like to do outside of their work – from music to fly-fishing. We let the discussions flow freely, resulting in richly varied stories on topics ranging from poverty prevention to the science of black holes and the importance of being a role model.

Our latest season running in Spring/Summer 2024, features the new crop of 2023 laureates, and is produced in cooperation with Fundación Ramón Areces.

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Top 10 Nobel Prize Conversations Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Nobel Prize Conversations episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Nobel Prize Conversations for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Nobel Prize Conversations episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Angus Deaton: Nobel Prize Conversations

Nobel Prize Conversations

02/12/20 • 42 min

Angus Deaton dreamed of being a pianist, a rugby player or a mathematician – but he just wasn’t good enough. After these setbacks, however, he discovered economics, and in 2015 he was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

Listen to a conversation about some wild ideas, beautiful places and the role trout fishing can play in problem-solving.

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Richard Thaler: Nobel Prize Conversations

Nobel Prize Conversations

01/29/20 • 33 min

Nudges, sludges, and the connection between stubbornness and success - in this first episode of Nobel Prize conversations, host Adam Smith interviews Economic Sciences laureate Richard Thaler. His work has helped us to understand how people make choices in the real world and has also given us tools to nudge people towards better decisions.

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Calling Alexei Ekimov: 2023 chemistry laureate

Nobel Prize Conversations

10/04/23 • 5 min

"It's the middle of the night here!" Alexei Ekimov's first reaction to hearing the news of his 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was reasonable enough: "I woke up," he says! In this call with the Nobel Prize's Adam Smith, made not long afterwards, Ekimov goes on to discuss the experiments he performed over forty years ago producing quantum effects in coloured glass. He explains how his experiments confirmed theories he had read about back in his student textbooks: "I still remember that picture," he recalls, "where there is a quantum well, and the levels of electrons, confined in that quantum well."

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Christopher Sims: Nobel Prize Conversations

Nobel Prize Conversations

04/08/20 • 37 min

How important is the money in your pocket? Try buying a sandwich with an IOU and a promise to come back and pay, and you’ll soon understand. Christopher Sims’ research explores topics from the meaning of money to his Prize-awarded work on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. In a conversation with The Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith, Sims touches on sandwich shops, terrific teachers and a horse with a name that’s almost impossible to pronounce.

In 2011, Christopher Sims and fellow economist Thomas Sargent were awarded the Prize in economic sciences for developing methods that help define 'what caused what' in economics.

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David Julius: Nobel Prize Conversations

Nobel Prize Conversations

06/08/22 • 32 min

"I didn't really like school very much. And I was always like a little bit nervous about not doing well." David Julius, the 2021 physiology or medicine laureate, talks about his journey from anxious pupil to confident researcher, the importance of diversity in science, and how his research is connected to how different species experience the world in different ways.

Your host is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer at Nobel Prize Outreach.

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Roger Penrose: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations

Nobel Prize Conversations

11/16/22 • 53 min

“I am very bad at giving up.” – Get to know one of the greatest minds of today, physicist Roger Penrose. Even beyond his 90th birthday he seems to be working more than ever and is engaged in various research projects. In an intimate conversation with the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith, Penrose speaks about how 2020 was a year that gave him time to reflect and develop even more research ideas – until he was awarded the Nobel Prize! Black holes, magic blackboards and childhood aspirations are other topics that are up for discussion.

Roger Penrose was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".

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Calling Katalin Karikó: 2023 medicine laureate

Nobel Prize Conversations

10/02/23 • 7 min

The call from Stockholm woke Katalin Karikó at her home outside Philadelphia. Initially in disbelief, in this interview with Adam Smith, recorded soon after she had learnt of the award of the Nobel Prize for discoveries that accelerated the introduction of vaccines for Covid-19, she recalls her journey from Hungary and some of the setbacks on the path to the mRNA vaccines. "10 years ago I was here in October, because I was kicked out and forced to retire!" Her advice is to not to dwell on the problems: "You have to focus on the things you can change."

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Calling Drew Weissman: 2023 medicine laureate

Nobel Prize Conversations

10/02/23 • 6 min

“We weren’t sure it was true!” Drew Weissman’s research partner and co-laureate Katalin Karikó called him early this morning with some incredible news – they had both been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The two have a 20 year history of working together. "We both have sleep disturbances," he says in this conversation with the Nobel Prize's Adam Smith, "so usually around 3 to 5am we would be emailing each other with new ideas." Speaking just after he had heard of the award, he stresses that despite his new found notoriety and all the claims on his time, "Nothing distracts me from my work." As to the effect of the Nobel Prize: "This just encourages us more!"

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The call from Oslo to Maria Ressa, 2021 peace laureate

Nobel Prize Conversations

10/08/21 • 2 min

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 just before the public announcement. "I'm speechless!"

From October 4-11, don't miss our mini-season that will showcase the absolute freshest interviews with the new 2021 Nobel Prize laureates.

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Ferenc Krausz: Nobel Prize Conversations

Nobel Prize Conversations

05/29/24 • 45 min

Meet 2023 physics laureate Ferenc Krausz in conversation with podcast host Adam Smith, as they discuss a scientific journey which has spanned three countries – and to which Krausz attributes his Nobel Prize.

”These particles were discovered more than a hundred years before. It took an utter century to develop the tools to actually capture them in motion. It was an indescribable moment.”, he says as he recalls how this moment of discovery was a long time in the making. Krausz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for giving humanity new tools to exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.

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How many episodes does Nobel Prize Conversations have?

Nobel Prize Conversations currently has 117 episodes available.

What topics does Nobel Prize Conversations cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Education and Science.

What is the most popular episode on Nobel Prize Conversations?

The episode title 'Angus Deaton: Nobel Prize Conversations' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Nobel Prize Conversations?

The average episode length on Nobel Prize Conversations is 26 minutes.

How often are episodes of Nobel Prize Conversations released?

Episodes of Nobel Prize Conversations are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Nobel Prize Conversations?

The first episode of Nobel Prize Conversations was released on Jan 29, 2020.

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