One of the good things about living here in Stockholm is that a day or two before the prize ceremony you can go listen to the winners talk about what they've won for. It's really quite cool!
I can think of quite a few characteristics that almost all Nobel laureates share. I don't believe you win a Nobel prize without being intelligent, curious, single-minded and dedicated to your subject.
Incredibly nice to see how this man remained humble and kind! What a great chemist/physicist, I believe his additions to NMR were the develoment of multidimensional techniques?
This is nice, just casual talk with a Nobel prize winner. The wonderful use of youtube for promoting science with Nobel Laureate! The best questions: "Did Nobel Prize change your life" Professor Richard Ernst - NO!!
Who were the other two he expected to share the prize with? Very nice interview I must say, and as Mr. Poliakoff said; A very nice, humble laureate! Seems he has a beautiful wife and family ;-)
I remember hearing a story about Richard Feynman a Journalist came up to him just after he accepted the the Nobel Prize and asked him if he could explain why he won the prize in about 30 seconds for the TV audience. He thought a bit and said, "No" and walked off. Incidentily he was asked about the money he won the cash is usually split up between the team of researchers etc as a recognition that it wasn't just one person who won it but it was a team effort.
Great comment at about 3:06 "The more honest the more serious person are normally the females. Males are just playboys." My wife tells me this all the time.
why is it always older people who win Nobel prizes? can somebody whos like 40 win a nobel prize before i die? by the way im 17... and i honestly enjoy these videos greatly, yet i am not good in school, i like learning when at home but i hate being at school... haha
@AlexKalicinski what? it's a link. You just have to take out the (dot) and put a real dot, because youtube doesn't let people post actual links. It contains the answer to your question.
Well, I don't appriciate his apparent self hatred of men, seem's he's been listening to his wife far too much. Fascinating interview though. I agree with him very much about the necessity for theory to go with experimentation.
I fully inspired that I'm the Nobel Medical Laureate , although , great it's hard to carry the honorable that is greater than me , I ask my God to help me to carry this large and precious responsibility , please keep this video record because it's gave me a lot of psychological support . Thank you so much , and it's the starting point of long journey .
