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Nobel Voices Videohistory Project collection, 2000-2001.
The thirty-three interviews total approximately twenty-six and one half hours in length and exist in five formats: digital, BetaCam SP, 1/2 VHS, cassette audio tapes, and transcripts. All five formats document the same interview content for each interviewee. The collection contains original, master, and reference videos, audio tapes, transcripts, production footage (stock and b-roll) and compact disks, documenting thirty-three Nobel laureates. All interviews were conducted by Neil Hollander. The production footage is from a variety of non-profit and commercial sources and there are no transcripts or time logs. The production footage was used in the exhibition interactive Ask the Prizewinners and the Nobel Prize: 100 Years of Creativity and Innovation (interactive CD-ROM). This CD-ROM explores the motivation and vision of Nobel laureates and the history of Alfred Nobel and his prize. This CD-ROM is a resource for educators and others interested in interdisciplinary approaches to stimulating creativity. The Ernst Otto Fischer (Chemistry 1973) interview was not conducted in English and there is no transcript. The Hans-Uno Bengtson interview documents a Swedish physicist and there is no transcript. Five interviews include laureate spouses: Kirsten Fischer Lindahl, Isabella Karle, Margaret Kroto, Nancy Mullis, and Phyllis Osheroff. The video interviews and transcripts are unedited.
The National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution and the Deutsches Museum collaborated in June 2000 to conduct video interviews with thirty-three Nobel Laureates. Interviews were conducted in Lindau, Germany, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the United States. The video documentation subsequently formed the core of the Nobel Voices Video History Project and the exhibition Nobel Voices: Celebrating 100 Years of the Nobel Prize. The interviewees were asked about their motivations, visions for the future, and opinions on the nature of creativity and innovation. In the interviews, the laureates speak about their passion for their work, their childhood inspirations, the spirit of discovery, and the personal meaning of the Nobel Prize. Interviewees were: Werner Arber, Hans-Uno Bengton, Gunther Blobel, Paul Boyer, Claude Cohen-Tannouudji, Johann Deisenhofer, Kristen Lindahl Deisenhofer, Manfried Eigen, Richard Ernst, Edmond Fischer, Ernst Otto Fischer, Paul Greengard, Jerome Karle, Isabella Karle, Klaus von Klitzing, Walter Kohn, Harold Kroto, Robert B. Laughlin, David Lee, Rudolph A. Marcus, Kary B. Mullis, Nancy Mullis, Erwin Neher, Douglas D. Osheroff, Phyliss L. Osheroff, William D. Phillips, John Polanyi, John Pople, Gerardus t'Hooft, Robert C. Richardson, Jack Steinberger, Samuel C.C. Ting, Charles Townes, Martinus Veltman, and Jody Williams.
Arber, Werner.
Bengton, Hans-Uno.
Blobel, G nter.
Boyer, Paul D.
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude, 1933-
Deisenhofer, Johann.
Deisenhofer, Kristen Lindahl.
Eigen, Manfred, 1927-
Fischer, E. O., (Ernst O.)
Fischer, Edmond
Greengard, Paul, 1925-
Hooft, G. 't.
Karle, Isabella, 1921-2017
Karle, Jerome
Klitzing, K. von.
Kohn, Walter, 1923-2016-
Kroto, H. W.
Laughlin, Robert B.
Lee, David M. 1931-
Marcus, R. A.
Mullis, Kary B.
Mullis, Nancy
Neher, Erwin, 1944-
Osheroff, Douglas D.
Osheroff, Phyliss L.
Phillips, William D. (William Daniel), 1948-
Polanyi, J. C., 1929-
Pople, John A., 1925-2004.
Richardson, Robert C. (Robert Coleman), 1937-
Steinberger, J.
Ting, S. C. C. (Samuel Chao-chung), 1936-
Townes, Charles H.
Veltman, Martinus.
Williams, Jody, 1950-
Nobel Prizes.
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Transcripts. aat
Video recordings. aat
Arber, Werner.
Bengton, Hans-Uno.
Blobel, G nter.
Boyer, Paul D.
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude, 1933-
Deisenhofer, Johann.
Deisenhofer, Kristen Lindahl.
Eigen, Manfred, 1927-
Fischer, Edmond
Fischer, E. O., (Ernst O.)
Greengard, Paul, 1925-
Hooft, G. 't.
Karle, Isabella, 1921-2017
Karle, Jerome
Klitzing, K. von.
Kohn, Walter, 1923-2016-
Kroto, H. W.
Laughlin, Robert B.
Lee, David M. 1931-
Marcus, R. A.
Mullis, Kary B.
Mullis, Nancy
Neher, Erwin, 1944-
Osheroff, Douglas D.
Osheroff, Phyliss L.
Phillips, William D. (William Daniel), 1948-
Polanyi, J. C., 1929-
Pople, John A., 1925-2004.
Richardson, Robert C. (Robert Coleman), 1937-
Steinberger, J.
Ting, S. C. C. (Samuel Chao-chung), 1936-
Townes, Charles H.
Veltman, Martinus.
Williams, Jody, 1950-
Deutsches Museum (Germany)
National Museum of American History (U.S.)
AIP-ICOS
Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American History. Archives Center. MRC 601, 12th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
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