News from Nobelprize.org
August 28, 2009
Back from summer holidays, we at Nobelprize.org are turning our attention towards the upcoming 2009 Nobel Prize announcements in early October. This year there will be even more ways to follow the course of the announcements, as we launch a Facebook page to add to our other social media channels, including our dedicated YouTube channel and up-to-the-minute Twitter feeds, as well as our RSS feeds on Nobelprize.org.
Not that the summer has been without activity! Below, for instance, we've highlighted a few of the new interviews that have been posted since our last newsletter in June, all featuring Nobel Laureates who haven't been seen in conversation on Nobelprize.org before. Follow the links, read the short summaries to the right of the video player, and use the progress bar to dip into whatever section of the interview interests you most.
And now that we know that dates for the announcements, don't forget to put them in your diary!
Adam Smith
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FOLLOW NOBELPRIZE.ORG ON FACEBOOK
As part of our outreach to new audiences, Nobelprize.org has started a page on Facebook. If you are a member of Facebook, become a fan of Nobelprize.org and follow news and regular updates.
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DATES FOR THE 2009 NOBEL PRIZES
The times and dates of the announcements are now published! All except for the Nobel Prize in Literature, that is, since the Swedish Academy traditionally sets the date just a few days before its announcement.
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IN CONVERSATION WITH VAL FITCH
Nobelprize.org finally caught-up with Val Fitch, co-recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics, at Princeton University earlier this year. Listen to his spellbinding account of witnessing the infamous Trinity Test; the first nuclear explosion.
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... WITH KENNETH ARROW
Father of the "Impossibility Theorem", Kenneth Arrow was awarded the Economics Prize 36 years ago. Always diverse in his outlook, his first publication was actually in meteorology.
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... WITH MYRON SCHOLES
1997 Economics Laureate Myron Scholes, whose options pricing model became almost universally adopted, tells us why he thinks his bad eyesight as a child was something of a blessing, and why he embraces risk.
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... WITH MARTIN PERL
"Most of one's research life has got to be spent doing mistakes", says Martin Perl, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995. Interviewed in his office in Stanford, his childhood passion for mechanics is reflected by the Meccano models that surround him.
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KIM DAE-JUNG, IN MEMORIAM
Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung died earlier this month. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000, and the Nobel Lecture he gave at that time is an inspirational read.
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