Nobel Prize Conversations – in dialogue

Madrid, 7 July 2022

Imagination at work

Nobel Prize Conversations – in dialogue

7 July 2022, 18:00-20:00 CET
Onsite event
Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid

Would you like to get a bit closer to a Nobel Prize laureate? Welcome to this exclusive live conversation with two laureates investigating their approach to scientific exploration and the role that imagination plays in their work. 

Ardem Patapoutian and Hartmut Michel both followed unexpected roads to research. Join the conversation as we delve into their attitudes to diversity, curiosity, asking big questions, success and failure, and find out how they found their individual paths to the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize laureates Ardem Patapoutian, physiology or medicine 2021, and Hartmut Michel, chemistry 1988, are both featured in the current Nobel Prize Conversations podcast season from nobelprize.org.

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Nobel Prize Conversations – in dialogue

7 de julio de 2022, 18:00-20:00 CET
Onsite event
Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid

¿Te gustaría acercarte un poco más a un Premio Nobel? Bienvenido a esta conversación exclusiva en directo con dos galardonados que compartirán con nosotros su enfoque de la investigación científica y el papel que desempeña la imaginación en su trabajo.

Ardem Patapoutian y Hartmut Michel siguieron caminos inesperados hacia la investigación. Únete a esta conversación en la que profundizaremos en sus actitudes ante la diversidad, la curiosidad, la formulación de grandes preguntas, el éxito y el fracaso. Descubre cómo encontraron sus propios caminos hacia el Premio Nobel. Debatir las implicaciones que la investigación de Hartmut Michel tiene para el futuro de la energía solar nos ayudará a profundizar en cómo transformar nuestras sociedades a la luz de los retos de la sostenibilidad.

Los premios Nobel Ardem Patapoutian, fisiología o medicina 2021, y Hartmut Michel, química 1988, aparecen en la actual temporada de podcasts Nobel Prize Conversations de nobelprize.org. El diálogo también contará con la participación de Elea Giménez Toledo, Director of Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS), Spanish National Research Council, y Eva Ortega-Paíno, Biobank Scientific Director, Spanish National Research Centre (CNIO), y será moderado por Adam Smith, director científico de Nobel Prize Outreach.

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Podcast interview
2021 medicine laureate Ardem Patapoutian tells us about his shock and happiness after receiving the Nobel Prize, or as he puts it: “All of us in science know that the Nobel Prize is a big deal but I really didn’t anticipate it to be this big of a deal.” u003ca href=u0022https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-prize-conversations-4/u0022u003eListen here. u003c/au003e
Portrait of Ardem Patapoutian
Podcast interview
Meet chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Hartmut Michel who tells us about his childhood, in which his family had little money, and how it seemed unlikely that he would grow up to be a scientist. He also shares his experience of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate at the age of 40. u003ca href=u0022https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-prize-conversations-4/u0022u003eListen here.u003c/au003e
Hartmut Michel

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