Interview
with Hiroshi Amano
Telephone interview with Hiroshi
Amano following the announcement of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, 7 October
2014. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
[Hiroshi
Amano] Hiroshi Amano speaking.
[Adam
Smith] Hello. My name is Adam Smith from Nobelprize.org, the official website
of the Nobel Prize in Stockholm.
[HA]
Oh, thank you for calling.
[AS]
First of all, of course congratulations on the award of the Nobel Prize.
[HA]
Thank you.
[AS]
So, it must have been the most extraordinary week you’d been having?
[HA]
Yes, I was so surprised. Yeah, it’s quite extraordinary for me.
[AS]
Have you managed to find even a moment to yourself or have you been in the
public eye the whole time?
[HA]
Yeah, yeah, my university staff manage my schedule so I cannot manage by
myself! [Laughs]
[AS]
And you were in France when you heard the news, were you?
[HA]
Mmm.
[AS]
Were you travelling when the news broke? Or did you get a call? Or what
happened?
[HA]
Yeah, yeah. I saw in the PC. My PC, during the transit at Frankfurt airport,
and I found many many email, and I still did not understand what happened. And
when I arrived at Reims airport then I found I received as one of the winner.
So I was so surprised. [Laughs]
[HA]
It must have been a very confusing flight from Frankfurt while you wondered
what was going on?
[HA]
[Laughs] Yeah, yeah. It’s one of the most amazing travels for me.
[AS]
And now that the news has had a few days to sink in, how do you feel about it?
[HA]
Yeah, yeah, more than happy. But now I’m wondering how to act. Because many the
people watching me so I should act very fortunate, responsible or something.
[AS]
Suddenly you have to be very grown up, perhaps.
[HA]
[Laughs] Yeah, yeah, sure.
[AS]
The invention that the Prize has been awarded for is everywhere. Everywhere you
look you see the blue LED. How does that make you feel to have been part of
something that is now everywhere?
[HA]
Yeah, yeah. For me it’s my great honour that many people use blue LEDs or LED
lightings now. So, we can contribute to the energy savings for the humans, so I’m
very very happy to contribute to the energy saving issues.
[AS]
And it must be a great joy to be awarded together with your supervisor, Isamu
Akasaki?
[HA]
Yes.
[AS]
What did he teach you?
[HA]
So, he teach me that the nitrate, gallium nitrate was very, is very promising
material for the blue LED. So I could concentrate on the gallium nitrate and
not other materials like zinc selenide and silicon carbide.
[AS]
It’s now the evening coming up in Japan. What do you have scheduled for the
evening? Do you have a free evening for once? [Laughs]
[HA]
Yes, I’m free.
[AS]
That’s nice. So when did you come back to Japan?
[HA]
October 10th, the day Friday morning.
[AS]
Ah, there must have been an amazing welcome for you.
[HA]
Yes, yes, there are many many interviewers at the airport so I was so so
surprised. More than 80 peoples gather and say congratulations. [Laughs]
[AS]
Anyway, I’m very happy to add my voice to those congratulations. So once again,
thank you very much for speaking to us now.
[HA]
Thank you so much.
[AS]
Thank you very much indeed. Bye bye.
[HA]
Bye bye. |
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