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Nobel Prize Winner Video Lectures in Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
 

 
• Albert Fert - for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance
  Video lecture: The Origin, the Development and the Future of Spintronics
   
• Peter Grünberg - for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance
  Video lecture: From Spinwaves to Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) and Beyond

Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
 

 
• John C. Mather - for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation
  Video lecture: From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and Beyond
   
• George F. Smoot - for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation
  Video lecture: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies: Their Discovery and Utilization

Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
 

 
• Roy J. Glauber - for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence
  Video lecture: One Hundred Years of Light Quanta
   
• John L. Hall - for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique
  Video lecture: Defining and Measuring Optical Frequencies: The Optical Clock Opportunity – and More
   
• Theodor W. Hänsch - for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique
  Video lecture: Passion for Precision

Nobel Prize in Physics 2004
 

 
• David J. Gross - for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
  Video lecture: The Discovery of Asymptotic Freedom and the Emergence of QCD
   
• Frank Wilczek - for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
  Video lecture: Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm

Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
 

 
• Alexei A. Abrikosov - for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
  Video lecture: Type II Superconductors and the Vortex Lattice
   
• Vitaly L. Ginzburg - for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
  Video lecture: On Superconductivity and Superfluidity
   
• Anthony J. Leggett - for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
  Video lecture: Superfluid 3-He: The Early Days as Seen by a Theorist

Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
 

 
• Raymond Davis Jr. - for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
  Video lecture: A Half-Century with Solar Neutrinos
   
• Masatoshi Koshiba - for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
  Video lecture: Birth of Neutrino Astrophysics
   
• Riccardo Giacconi - for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources
  Video lecture: The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy

Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
 

 
• Eric A. Cornell - for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
  Video lecture: Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Gas; The First 70 Years and Some Recent Experiments
   
• Wolfgang Ketterle - for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
  Video lecture: When Atoms Behave as Waves: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser
   
• Carl E. Wieman - for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
  Video lecture: Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Gas; The First 70 Years and Some Recent Experiments

Nobel Prize in Physics 2000
 

 
• Zhores I. Alferov - for basic work on information and communication technology
  Video lecture: Double Heterostructure Concept and its Applications in Physics, Electronics and Technology
   
• Herbert Kroemer - for basic work on information and communication technology
  Video lecture: Quasi-Electric Fields and Band Offsets: Teaching Electrons New Tricks
   
• Jack S. Kilby - for basic work on information and communication technology
  Video lecture: Turning Potential into Reality: The Invention of the Integrated Circuit

Nobel Prize in Physics 1999
 

 
• Gerardus 't Hooft - for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics
  Video lecture: A Confrontation with Infinity
   
• Martinus J.G. Veltman - for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics
  Video lecture: From Weak Interactions to Gravitation

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Nobel Prize Winner Video Lectures in Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007
 

 
• Gerhard Ertl - for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
  Video lecture: Reactions at Solid Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
 

 
• Roger D. Kornberg - for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
  Video lecture: The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005
 

 
• Yves Chauvin - for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis
  Video lecture: Olefin Metathesis: The Early Days
   
• Robert H. Grubbs - for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis
  Video lecture: Olefin Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Molecules and Materials
   
• Richard R. Schrock - for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis
  Video lecture: Multiple Metal-Carbon Bonds for Catalytic Metathesis Reactions

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004
 

 
• Aaron Ciechanover - for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
  Video lecture: Intracellular Protein Degradation: From a Vague Idea thru the Lysosome and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and onto Human Diseases and Drug Targeting
   
• Avram Hershko - for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
  Video lecture: The Ubiquitin System for Protein Degradation and some of its Roles in the Control of the Cell Division Cycle
   
• Irwin Rose - for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
  Video lecture: Ubiquitin at Fox Chase

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
 

 
• Peter Agre - for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
  Video lecture: Aquaporin Water Channels
   
• Roderick MacKinnon - for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
  Video lecture: Potassium Channels and the Atomic Basis of Selective Ion Conduction

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002
 

 
• John B. Fenn - for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules
  Video lecture: Electrospray Wings for Molecular Elephants
   
• Koichi Tanaka - for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules
  Video lecture: The Origin of Macromolecule Ionization by Laser Irradiation
   
• Kurt Wüthrich - for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules
  Video lecture: NMR Studies of Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001
 

 
• William S. Knowles - for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions
  Video lecture: Asymmetric Hydrogenations
   
• Ryoji Noyori - for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions
  Video lecture: Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Technology
   
• K. Barry Sharpless - for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions
  Video lecture: The Search for New Chemical Reactivity

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
 

 
• Alan J. Heeger - for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
  Video lecture: Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: The Fourth Generation of Polymeric Materials
   
• Alan G. MacDiarmid - for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
  Video lecture: "Synthetic Metals": A Novel Role for Organic Polymers
   
• Hideki Shirakawa - for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
  Video lecture: The Discovery of Polyacetylene Film: The Dawning of an Era of Conducting Polymers

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999
 

 
• Ahmed H. Zewail - for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy
  Video lecture: Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Using Ultrafast Lasers

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Nobel Prize Winner Video Lectures in Medicine

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2007
 

 
• Mario R. Capecchi - for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells
  Video lecture: Gene Targeting in the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Psychiatric Disorders
   
• Sir Martin J. Evans - for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells
  Video lecture: ES Cells: The Mouse Source - Vehicle for Mammalian Experimental Genetics
   
• Oliver Smithies - for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells
  Video lecture: Turning Pages

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2006
 

 
• Andrew Z. Fire - for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
  Video lecture: Gene Silencing by Double Stranded RNA
   
• Craig C. Mello - for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
  Video lecture: Return to the RNAi World: Rethinking Gene Expression and Evolution

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2005
 

 
• Barry J. Marshall - for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease
  Video lecture: Helicobacter Connections
   
• J. Robin Warren - for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease
  Video lecture: Helicobacter – The Ease and Difficulty of a New Discovery

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2004
 

 
• Richard Axel - for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system
  Video lecture: Scents and Sensibility: A Molecular Logic of Olfactory Perception
   
• Linda B. Buck - for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system
  Video lecture: Unraveling the Sense of Smell

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2003
 

 
• Paul C. Lauterbur - for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging
  Video lecture: All Science is Interdisciplinary - from Magnetic Moments to Molecules to Men
   
• Sir Peter Mansfield - for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging
  Video lecture: Snap-Shot MRI

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2002
 

 
• Sydney Brenner - for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'
  Video lecture: Nature’s Gift to Science
   
• H. Robert Horvitz - for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'
  Video lecture: Worms, Life and Death
   
• John E. Sulston - for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'
  Video lecture: C. elegans: The Cell Lineage and Beyond

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2001
 

 
• Leland H. Hartwell - for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle
  Video lecture: Yeast and Cancer
   
• Tim Hunt - for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle
  Video lecture: Protein Synthesis, Proteolysis, and Cell Cycle Transitions
   
• Sir Paul M. Nurse - for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle
  Video lecture: Controlling the Cell Cycle

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2000
 

 
• Arvid Carlsson - for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
  Video lecture: A Half-Century of Neurotransmitter Research: Impact on Neurology and Psychiatry
   
• Paul Greengard - for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
  Video lecture: The Neurobiology of Dopamine Signaling
   
• Eric R. Kandel - for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
  Video lecture: The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialog between Genes and Synapses

Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999
 

 
• Günter Blobel - for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
  Video lecture: Protein Targeting

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Nobel Prize Winner Video Lectures in Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
 

 
• Doris Lessing - that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny
  Video lecture: On not winning the Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize in Literature 2006
 

 
• Orhan Pamuk - who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures
  Video lecture: Babamın bavulu (My Father's Suitcase)

Nobel Prize in Literature 2005
 

 
• Harold Pinter - who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms
  Video lecture: Art, Truth & Politics

Nobel Prize in Literature 2004
 

 
• Elfriede Jelinek - for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power
  Video lecture: Sidelined

Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
 

 
• John M. Coetzee - who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider
  Video lecture: He and his man

Nobel Prize in Literature 2002
 

 
• Imre Kertész - for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history
  Video lecture: Heureka!

Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
 

 
• Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories
  Video lecture: Two Worlds

Nobel Prize in Literature 2000
 

 
• Gao Xingjian - for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama
  Video lecture: The Case for Literature

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Nobel Prize Winner Video Lectures in Economics

Nobel Prize in Economics 2007
 

 
• Leonid Hurwicz - for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
  Video lecture: But Who Will Guard the Guardians?
   
• Eric S. Maskin - for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
  Video lecture: Mechanism Design: How to Implement Social Goals
   
• Roger B. Myerson - for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
  Video lecture: Perspectives on Mechanism Design in Economic Theory

Nobel Prize in Economics 2006
 

 
• Edmund S. Phelps - for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy
  Video lecture: Macroeconomics for a Modern Economy

Nobel Prize in Economics 2005
 

 
• Robert J. Aumann - for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis
  Video lecture: War and Peace
   
• Thomas C. Schelling - for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis
  Video lecture: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima

Nobel Prize in Economics 2004
 

 
• Finn E. Kydland - for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles
  Video lecture: Quantitative Aggregate Theory
   
• Edward C. Prescott - for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles
  Video lecture: The Transformation of Macroeconomic Policy and Research

Nobel Prize in Economics 2003
 

 
• Robert F. Engle III - for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)
  Video lecture: Risk and Volatility: Econometric Models and Financial Practice
   
• Clive W.J. Granger - for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)
  Video lecture: Time Series Analysis, Cointegration, and Applications

Nobel Prize in Economics 2002
 

 
• Daniel Kahneman - for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty
  Video lecture: Maps of Bounded Rationality
   
• Vernon L. Smith - for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty
  Video lecture: Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics

Nobel Prize in Economics 2001
 

 
• George A. Akerlof - for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information
  Video lecture: Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior
   
• A. Michael Spence - for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information
  Video lecture: Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets
   
• Joseph E. Stiglitz - for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information
  Video lecture: Information and the Change in the Paradigm in Economics

Nobel Prize in Economics 2000
 

 
• James J. Heckman - for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples
  Video lecture: Microdata, Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Public Policy
   
• Daniel L. McFadden - for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples
  Video lecture: Economic Choices

Nobel Prize in Economics 1999
 

 
• Robert A. Mundell - for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas
  Video lecture: A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century

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Nobel Prize Winner Video Lectures in Peace

Nobel Prize in Peace 2007
 

 
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
  Video lecture: Nobel Lecture
   
• Al Gore - for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
  Video lecture: Nobel Lecture

Nobel Prize in Peace 2006
 

 
• Muhammad Yunus - for his efforts to create economic and social development from below.
  Video lecture: Nobel Lecture

Nobel Prize in Peace 2005
 

 
• Mohamed ElBaradei - for his efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
  Video lecture: Nobel Lecture

Nobel Prize in Peace 2004
 

 
• Wangari Maathai - for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
  Video lecture: Nobel Lecture

Nobel Prize in Peace 2003
 

 
• Shirin Ebadi - for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children.
  Video lecture: In the name of the God of Creation and Wisdom

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