Nobel Laureates (Audio)

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Nobel Laureates (Audio) episodes:

09.22.2021
Nobel Prize Medal Presented to Jennifer Doudna at her Berkeley Home
In December 2020, Jennifer Doudna received her Nobel Prize in Chemistry during a small, socially-distanced ceremony at her home - followed by takeout. The traditional celebration will have to wait until next year. A videographer and photographer captured the intimate...
10.26.2019
Editing the Code of Life: Into the Future with CRISPR Technology with Jennifer Doudna - 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest
Jennifer Doudna, co-discoverer of CRISPR-Cas9 and winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses how genome editing with CRISPR technology is transforming biology. CRISPR-Cas9, an RNA-guided enzyme with remarkable abilities to recognize and cleave DNA, operates by mechanisms that...
04.03.2019
Unraveling CRISPR-Cas9 with Jennifer Doudna - Conversations with History
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley for a discussion of her intellectual odyssey that led to the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary tool for gene editing. In the conversation, they explore the implications of...
10.22.2018
A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins with Svante Pääbo - 2018 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest
Most people are part-Neanderthal, the closest extinct human relative. Svante Pääbo explores human genetic evolution by analyzing preserved genetic material from the remains of ancient organisms, including Neanderthals. What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?...
07.02.2018
Voices of the Pacific with Nobel Laureate Elisabeth Holland - 2018 Keeling Lecture
The 2018 David Keeling Memorial Lecture hosts Dr. Elisabeth Holland, Professor of Climate Change and Director of the Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development at the University of the South Pacific. Dr. Holland is an internationally recognized scientist and...
09.07.2017
Work Toward a Happy World - Dalai Lama at UC San Diego Commencement
The 14th Dalai Lama, a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the spiritual leader of Tibet, delivered the keynote address at UC San Diego’s 2017 commencement ceremony. His talk centered on the power of compassion and finding happiness in life....
08.14.2017
The Value of Education Ethics and Compassion for the Well-Being of Self and Others - Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, becoming the first Nobel laureate to be recognized for his concern for global environmental problems. This keynote address from the UC San Diego’s 2017 commencement ceremony...
07.04.2017
An Evening with the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman
2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman is the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize. A human rights activist, journalist and politician, she was dubbed the “Mother of the Revolution”...
06.27.2017
Embracing the Beauty of Diversity in Our World - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, becoming the first Nobel laureate to be recognized for his concern for global environmental problems. He addressed an audience at UC San Diego focusing on love...
06.20.2017
UC San Diego Commencement 2017 with The Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama, a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the spiritual leader of Tibet, delivered the keynote address at UC San Diego’s 2017 commencement ceremony. His talk centered on the power of compassion and finding happiness in life....
04.11.2016
Education Changemakers: Nobel Laureate James Heckman and Venture Capitalist J.B. Pritzker
Economist and Nobel Laureate James Heckman presents research showing the value of early childhood education as he and entrepreneur/philanthropist J.B. Pritzker urge support for birth-to-age-5 programs as keys to developing strong regional and national economies. [Public Affairs]...
12.08.2015
Advising Presidents of U.S. and Mexico on Climate Change - What Can We Expect at COP-21? with Mario Molina: UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit
Nobel Laureate Mario Molina, UC San Diego, describes international actions to combat climate change. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30299]
07.06.2015
Invention of Blue LED Laser and Solid State Light with Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura discusses the way in which his invention grew to be what it is by starting with the work of growing high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) crystals in 1991 to demonstrating highly luminescent, blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in 1994. The...
05.25.2015
The Great Divide with Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Reich
Economist Joseph Stiglitz and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich reminisce about opposing “corporate welfare” during their days in the Clinton Administration and talk here about problematic trade deals, income inequality and Stiglitz’s new book, “The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and...
03.23.2015
Invention of Blue LED Laser and Solid State Light
Join UCSB's College of Engineering as they honor Professor Shuji Nakamura — 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics and a pioneer in light emitters based on Gallium Nitride. Nakamura is a professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering at...
02.18.2015
Celebrating Nobel Prize Laser Inventor Charles Townes
Charles Hard Townes, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the laser and subsequently pioneered the use of lasers in astronomy, died at the age...
10.20.2014
Data Computation and the Fate of the Universe
Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, describes the research that led to his 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28609]
10.13.2014
The Universe and Computers with George Smoot
George Smoot, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, describes the research that led to his Nobel Prize in physics in 2006. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28608]
10.06.2014
The Brief History and Future Development of Earth System Models: Resolution and Complexity
Warren Washington, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an internationally recognized expert on atmospheric science and climate research, describes the research that led to the 2007 Nobel Prize. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show...
06.02.2014
The Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery: Telomeres and Telomerase - Past Present and Future
Telomeres were first recognized in the late 1930s as important structures on chromosome ends. In the 1970s the sequence of these structures was identified in the ciliated protozoa Tetrahymena by Elizabeth Blackburn. In the 1980s telomerase was discovered as an...
05.26.2014
How Can Telomeres Cause Age-Related Disease?
Telomeres are the chromosomes end-part, that are needed to protect chromosome ends. Due to the way chromosomes are copied, these telomeres shorten with each round of cell division. This shortening is kept in check by the enzyme telomerase which elongates...
05.12.2014
Scientific Discovery with Carol Greider - Conversations with History
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcome Nobel Laureate Carol Greider, Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, for a discussion of her intellectual odyssey. Topics covered include her education; her Nobel winning research on telomeres...
03.03.2014
Journey to a Brilliant Discovery -- Lighting the World (Ep. 2)
In this episode of Lighting the World, we meet UC Santa Barbara’s Shuji Nakamura, creator of the white LED, and explore the decades-long quest to develop the white-light emitting LED. Series: "Lighting the World: Shuji Nakamura and His Brilliant Discovery"...
12.09.2013
The Future of Light - Lighting the World (Ep. 4)
In the final episode of Lighting the World, a look at research at UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting and Energy Center, what the future of lighting and power use may be, and how Shuji Nakamura’s work continues to affect...
10.28.2013
Unleashing the Light - Lighting the World (Ep. 3)
In this episode of Lighting the World - after years of effort, Shuji Nakamura discovers the breakthrough that enables the creation of the white-light emitting LED, unleashing a revolution in the way the world uses light and power. Series:...
10.23.2013
Albert Fert: The Rugby Player Who Got the Nobel Prize
A lively and wide-ranging visit with Albert Fert, life-long rugby player and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of an effect that revolutionized electronics forever. Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Show ID: 25570]
10.22.2013
Lights in the Darkness -- Lighting the World (Ep. 1)
We may take light for granted, but for some two-billion people around the globe, reliable, economical light sources are unavailable. In this episode of Lighting the World, John Bowers of UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency describes this problem...
10.07.2013
Herbert Kroemer Retirement
Friends and colleagues gather to discuss the life and work of Nobel Prize recipient Herbert Kroemer. Series: "Voices" [Science] [Show ID: 25308]
05.06.2013
Intellectual Journey with Gary Becker - Conversations with History
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker for a discussion of his intellectual journey. Topics covered in the conversation include: the influence of his parents, his education, Milton Friedman, his early work on discrimination, the skills and...
04.15.2013
Transforming Conflict through Nonviolent Coalitions with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee -- Institute for Peace and Justice
Leymah Gbowee, winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, recounts her role in launching the women's peace movement that helped bring an end to the civil war in Liberia in 2003. She and others were credited with ushering in...
03.18.2013
The Beginning and End of the Universe: What Physics Says
Berkeley Lab's Science at the Theater traveled across the Bay to San Francisco's Herbst Theater for a star turn by two of the Lab's Nobel laureates. George Smoot received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for the "discovery of the...
02.25.2013
Technology’s Promise Humanity’s Future
As late as the mid-twentieth century science and technology were celebrated as instruments of progress, but by the early twenty-first century they were viewed increasingly as threats to life on Earth. Vivek Wadhwa, Washington Post and Bloomberg Businessweek columnist, and...
07.02.2012
UC Global Health Day 2012 - Population Consumption and Human Wellbeing
The University of California, Berkeley hosted a gathering of experts in the fields of population, sustainability, and global health. Malcolm Potts, director and founder of the Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability at UC Berkeley, kicks off this plenary...
05.28.2012
Neuroscience and the Emerging Mind: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Consciousness and Compassion
His Holiness the Dalai Lama engages with Larry Hinman of the University of San Diego, V.S. Ramachandran of UC San Diego and Jennifer Thomas of San Diego State University in a scientific and philosophical discussion of human consciousness. This...
05.28.2012
The Global Impact of Climate Change: Balance Through Responsibility Compassion and Human Consciousness with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins esteemed scientists Richard Somerville and Veerabhadran Ramanathan at UC San Diego to discuss the need for humanitarian values and universal responsibility in responding to the impacts of climate change on communities and ecosystems....
05.21.2012
Cultivating Peace and Justice with the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama continues his “Compassion without Borders” tour in San Diego with “Cultivating Peace and Justice,” a public lecture at the University of San Diego addressing escalating violence among nations and alternatives that emphasize shared human values...
04.09.2012
Mayan Cosmology Cycle Ends: Precision Cosmology Progresses
In a public talk in front of the Great Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza, Berkeley Lab's Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot discusses the remarkable precision that ancient Mayan astronomers achieved solely with the naked eye and comments on the...
03.09.2012
C60: Buckminsterfullerene Not Just a Pretty Molecule with Harold Kroto
Sir Harold Kroto is an English chemist and the 1996 Nobel Prize recipient in Chemistry. He currently serves as Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. He researches the high-resolution electronic spectra of...
02.20.2012
The Role of Women in Promoting Peace and Democracy in the Middle East with Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi received the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting human rights, in particular, the rights of women, children, and political prisoners in Iran. She was the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and only the fifth...
02.06.2012
Mighty Be Our Powers - How Sisterhood Prayer and Sex Changes a Nation at War with Leymah Gbowee
A champion of women’s empowerment around the world, Leymah Gbowee is an African peace activist often credited with aiding the cessation of the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003 through her extraordinary women-led peace movement. Currently the Executive Director of...
12.09.2011
Revolution in the Biological Sciences with Sir John Gurdon - Conversations with History
Host Harry Kreisler Welcomes Professor Sir John Gurdon for a discussion of advances in research on cell biology. Sir John reflects on his career as a scientist including his path breaking research on cloning. He offers insights into...
10.28.2011
Scientific Discovery and the Information Age with Zhores Alferov (Conversations with History)
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Russian Nobel Prize Laureate Zhores Alferov for a discussion of the influences that shaped his scientific career, the interplay between theory and experimentation in his own scientific discovery, and the impact of the global science...
09.26.2011
His Holiness XIV Dalai Lama at UC Irvine
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama returned to UC Irvine to engage students and the community about compassion and global leadership. Series: "Great Minds Gather Here" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 22640]
07.18.2011
The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World with Michael Spence (Conversations with History)
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Nobel Laureate Michael Spence for a discussion of his new book, “The Next Convergence.” Spence discusses his intellectual odyssey focusing on his Nobel Prize research on information and market structure then explains how his...
05.23.2011
IDEaS: A Half Century of Innovation and Intellect: Transforming Ideas into Nobel Breakthroughs
Nobel Laureates Robert Engle, Roger Tsien, Mario Molina and Harry Markowitz present synopses of their award-winning work and engage in a lively discussion on what it takes to move forward on promising ideas. This event is part of...
05.02.2011
Justice: Local and Global with Amartya Sen
Nobel Laureate and Harvard Economist Amartya Sen opens the New Frontiers in Global Justice Conference at UC San Diego with an inspiring talk on achieving local and global justice. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 19623]
02.23.2011
IDEaS - Nobel Laureate Roger Y. Tsien
IDEaS - Nobel Laureate Roger Y. Tsien Series: "IDEaS" [Show ID: 21670]
01.17.2011
Rethinking Regulation After the Financial Crisis and the Oil Spill: A Behavioral Approach with Richard Thaler
How best to create laws and institutions to create a prosperous and just society? Noted behavioral economist Richard Thaler considers the public policy implications of behavioral economics, which assumes that that both the regulated and the regulators are fallible. Thaler...
01.10.2011
Studying Economic Behavior in Unusual Places: From Deal or No Deal to the National Football League with Richard Thaler
Richard Thaler is renowned for his extremely influential contributions to the emerging field of behavioral economics over the last three decades. He has made it his habit to look for data in unusual places. Here he draws on the behavior...
01.03.2011
Unraveling the Mystery of Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) with Sidney Altman - Conversations with History
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Nobel Laureate Sidney Altman, Sterling Professor at Yale University, for a discussion of Ribonucleic Acid(RNA). Topics covered include: the importance of basic research creativity in the sciences, the qualities and skills necessary for scientific problem...

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Nobel Laureates (Audio) episodes:

Nobel Prize Medal Presented to Jennifer Doudna at her Berkeley Home

Editing the Code of Life: Into the Future with CRISPR Technology with Jennifer Doudna - 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest

Unraveling CRISPR-Cas9 with Jennifer Doudna - Conversations with History

A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins with Svante Pääbo - 2018 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest

Voices of the Pacific with Nobel Laureate Elisabeth Holland - 2018 Keeling Lecture

Work Toward a Happy World - Dalai Lama at UC San Diego Commencement

The Value of Education Ethics and Compassion for the Well-Being of Self and Others - Dalai Lama

An Evening with the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman

Embracing the Beauty of Diversity in Our World - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

UC San Diego Commencement 2017 with The Dalai Lama

Education Changemakers: Nobel Laureate James Heckman and Venture Capitalist J.B. Pritzker

Advising Presidents of U.S. and Mexico on Climate Change - What Can We Expect at COP-21? with Mario Molina: UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit

Invention of Blue LED Laser and Solid State Light with Shuji Nakamura

The Great Divide with Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Reich

Invention of Blue LED Laser and Solid State Light

Celebrating Nobel Prize Laser Inventor Charles Townes

Data Computation and the Fate of the Universe

The Universe and Computers with George Smoot

The Brief History and Future Development of Earth System Models: Resolution and Complexity

The Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery: Telomeres and Telomerase - Past Present and Future

How Can Telomeres Cause Age-Related Disease?

Scientific Discovery with Carol Greider - Conversations with History

Journey to a Brilliant Discovery -- Lighting the World (Ep. 2)

The Future of Light - Lighting the World (Ep. 4)

Unleashing the Light - Lighting the World (Ep. 3)

Albert Fert: The Rugby Player Who Got the Nobel Prize

Lights in the Darkness -- Lighting the World (Ep. 1)

Herbert Kroemer Retirement

Intellectual Journey with Gary Becker - Conversations with History

Transforming Conflict through Nonviolent Coalitions with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee -- Institute for Peace and Justice

The Beginning and End of the Universe: What Physics Says

Technology’s Promise Humanity’s Future

UC Global Health Day 2012 - Population Consumption and Human Wellbeing

Neuroscience and the Emerging Mind: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Consciousness and Compassion

The Global Impact of Climate Change: Balance Through Responsibility Compassion and Human Consciousness with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Cultivating Peace and Justice with the Dalai Lama

Mayan Cosmology Cycle Ends: Precision Cosmology Progresses

C60: Buckminsterfullerene Not Just a Pretty Molecule with Harold Kroto

The Role of Women in Promoting Peace and Democracy in the Middle East with Shirin Ebadi

Mighty Be Our Powers - How Sisterhood Prayer and Sex Changes a Nation at War with Leymah Gbowee

Revolution in the Biological Sciences with Sir John Gurdon - Conversations with History

Scientific Discovery and the Information Age with Zhores Alferov (Conversations with History)

His Holiness XIV Dalai Lama at UC Irvine

The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World with Michael Spence (Conversations with History)

IDEaS: A Half Century of Innovation and Intellect: Transforming Ideas into Nobel Breakthroughs

Justice: Local and Global with Amartya Sen

IDEaS - Nobel Laureate Roger Y. Tsien

Rethinking Regulation After the Financial Crisis and the Oil Spill: A Behavioral Approach with Richard Thaler

Studying Economic Behavior in Unusual Places: From Deal or No Deal to the National Football League with Richard Thaler

Unraveling the Mystery of Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) with Sidney Altman - Conversations with History