Hi listeners, Benjamin here. This is a special podcast extra ahead of tomorrow's usual nature podcast.

It's Nobel Prizes Week, and today the three winners who shared the physics prize were announced.

One of these winners is Didier Kulot from the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Just a couple of hours after the prize announcement, Didier took part in a press conference

here in the UK, so I popped along to chat to him and started by asking him where he was

when he found out he was a Nobel Prize winner. Yeah, well, actually, I was in a meeting with my colleagues, and it's a sense

meeting about a project we're going together, and I think I got a phone call from Cambridge,

so I just answered, so maybe it's just some admin office, and then I went out, and that's

who I learned the news, that I got awarded the Nobel Prize. I couldn't believe that and had a kind of a blackout

for some times. And then I went up in the room and then all my colleagues, they clap and they,

because they realized something happened and they Google it and they realized I was part of the

Nobel Prize laureate. And I was extremely glad of this because this is a very nice collaboration

having with these

people and some of them are my former PhD students.

So there was a perfect assembly, I think, to have this first emotional impact moment when

you try to digest and understand what's going on, really.

I mean, how are you feeling right now?

I mean, is this how you expected today to pan out?

Well, I quickly give up to control anything today, so I'm just following a bit of the flow,

like a leaf in the river. I feel much better right now because I understand a bit better what was

happening, and I'm very happy to communicate about the sounds I'm doing. And I guess you must have spoken to your

family. What have they said? Well, they're very proud and they're very excited and my parents

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