Ah, this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Every year, a few days before Nobel Prize ceremony, each winner gives a free lecture about the topic that he/she received the prize for. They are filmed and available online afterwards at
www.nobelprize.org.
I live quite close to my alma mater where some of the lectures are being held, and every year I go and see the
lectures in physics in person.
However, this year's videos won't be available until the first week of December, at the earliest, because then is when the lectures will be held.
The opening is often quite dry, but parts of the lectures usually get quite personal with snippets about the prize winner's life, career and inspiration. For instance one winner mentioned that when he was an undergrad student, he used to meet Albert Einstein on the way to school every morning, and he showed us a picture he had taken. They also almost always show a picture of their families and credit their wives for providing "ground support".
