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Winning the Nobel Prize

Joe Palca speaks with 2006 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine about their work and what it's like to win the prize.

Guests:

John Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Senior Astrophysicist and Goddard Fellow, Senior Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD

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George Smoot, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Astrophysicist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA

David Bushnell, Research Associate, Roger Kornberg Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Andrew Fire, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor, Departments of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

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