The Nobel Prize ceremony is held every year on December 10th, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. In 2025, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine were Professor Shimon Sakaguchi, Distinguished Professor at Osaka University, and Professor Susumu Kitagawa, Executive Vice President of Kyoto University, in Chemistry. Enago has published interviews with three Nobel Prize winners, including Professor Susumu Kitagawa, on its website.
Interview with Dr. Shuji Nakamura
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics winner.
Professor Nakamura Shuji independently developed blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) while employed by a company, and later became a professor at the University of California. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for his achievements in LED research and development. He continues to actively pursue research, including efforts to realize nuclear fusion power generation . Enago conducted this interview in 2007, before he was awarded the Nobel Prize. We spoke to him about his time studying abroad, the first class he taught, and how he approached English.
♦Interview with Top Researchers by Enago : Interview with Shuji Nakamura
“It was my first lecture in English. I was so nervous I almost fainted.”
Interview with Dr. Toshihide Masukawa
Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Professor Toshihide Maskawa is a theoretical physicist who, together with Professor Makoto Kobayashi, proposed the “Kobayashi-Maskawa theory,” which later came to be known as the foundation of particle physics, and for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 along with Professors Makoto Kobayashi and Yoichiro Nanbu. He made headlines when he delivered his acceptance speech in Japanese, prefaced with ” I am sorry , I cannot speak English,” and in this interview, Professor Maskawa spoke about giving presentations in English, writing and reading English papers, and more.
♦Top Researcher Interview by Enago: Interview with Toshihide Maskawa
“You can manage even if you can’t speak English. That’s how I’ve survived.”
Interview with Dr. Susumu Kitagawa
2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Dr. Susumu Kitagawa, a PhD in engineering, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of his achievements in the research and development of porous materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are expected to have a wide range of applications, including the adsorption and removal of fluorocarbons (PFAS) and carbon dioxide, as well as gas storage. In a 2019 interview conducted in collaboration with Clarivate , Dr. Kitagawa, whose numerous papers have been highly cited, spoke about a wide range of topics, including the development of MOFs (PCPs), his method for writing papers, interdisciplinary collaborative research, and the need to support the development of Japan’s human resources.
♦Top Researcher Interview by Enago: Interview with Dr. Susumu Kitagawa
” Be persistent and persevere. Gain a variety of experiences. If you do that, I’m sure you’ll realize that the diamond ore is right next to you .”
Enago also publishes video and text interviews with notable researchers from a variety of fields, including Professor Mizushima Noboru of the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, who is world-renowned for his research on autophagy, and Professor Domen Kazunari, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Tokyo’s Distinguished Professor Office and Special Project Professor at the Shinshu University Institute for Materials Science, Interdisciplinary Research Group for Cutting-Edge Research, who developed a water-splitting photocatalyst that is also expected to help combat climate change.
These interviews can be viewed on the portal site “Share Your Story,” which conveys the appeal of science and provides information and tips to a wide range of readers and viewers, including young researchers and those aspiring to become researchers.
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