
English: 
I come from humble beginnings. A small
town in the industrial part of the US.
It was a way out for me
to study science and do well.
I'm an American from a small town
in western Pennsylvania.
That's original steel country
where the steel factories were built.
One thing I remember distinctly was
that if I didn't study hard -
- and do well and go to university,
I would work in the steel factory.
That was the threat they used.
Science was really pushed at that time,
the time of the first moon landings.
I grew up with the space program.
I had really good science teachers -
- who encouraged me.
They could see that I had this ability.
I began my career
working on antimatter.
I've been involved in
antimatter research all my life.

Danish: 
Jeg kommer fra små kår.
En lille by i USA's industribælte.
Jeg kunne slippe væk ved at studere
naturvidenskab og blive til noget.
Jeg kommer fra en lille by
i det vestlige Pennsylvania.
Det er det område,
hvor alle stålværkerne ligger.
Jeg fik at vide, at hvis ikke
jeg gjorde mig umage i skolen -
- og kom på universitetet, ville jeg ende
på stålværket. Det var truslen.
Naturvidenskaben var i vælten -
- på grund af de første månelandinger.
Jeg er vokset op med rumprogrammet.
Mine naturvidenskabslærere støttede mig.
De kunne se, jeg havde talent for det.
Jeg indledte karrieren
med at forske i antistof.
Jeg har forsket i antistof hele livet.

English: 
If you want to work on antimatter,
it takes a good degree of obsession.
Especially if you look back to the time
when we didn't know what we were doing.
We didn't know how to make antimatter
or how to hold onto it -
- or to study it. You have to be
a little insane to jump into that.
You have to be driven
by wanting to be first also.
No question about it.
This is a very competitive thing.
So for young people, you have to make it
clear to them that this isn't a job.
This is a commitment. If you want to do
physics at a high international level -
- this will dominate your life.
I work at CERN, the European laboratory
for particle research in Geneva.
We're a small community of scientists
at CERN working on antimatter.
If you go there, you'll see a sign.
CERN Antimatter Factory.
I told you about my grandfather working
in steel mills -

Danish: 
Hvis man vil arbejde med antistof,
skal man brænde for det.
Især når man tænker på dengang,
vi ikke anede, hvad vi lavede.
Vi kunne hverken skabe antistof,
fastholde eller studere det.
Man skal være lidt skør for at gøre det.
Man skal også være opsat på
at komme først.
Der er også et konkurrenceelement
ved det.
Unge mennesker skal forstå, at det ikke er
et arbejde, men noget, man brænder for.
Hvis man vil forske i fysik på højt plan,
skal man vie sit liv til det.
Jeg arbejder på CERN, det europæiske
forsøgsanlæg for partikelfysik i Genève.
Vi er en lille flok forskere på CERN,
der forsker i antistof.
På bygningen hænger der et skilt,
hvor der står CERN Antimatter Factory.
Som sagt arbejdede min bedstefar
på stålværket -

Danish: 
- og jeg blev truet med også at ende der,
hvis ikke jeg læste videre.
Nu arbejder jeg på antistofværket,
og vi går med sikkerhedshjelme og -sko.
Jeg ligner fuldstændig min bedstefar,
da han arbejdede på værket i 60'erne.
Mit første gennembrud skete i 2002 -
- efter omkring ti års forskning.
Det lykkedes os at syntetisere
antihydrogen ordentligt for første gang.
Det blev et vendepunkt i min karriere.
Det kom på forsiden
af New York Times.
Jeg fortalte min mor om det,
og vi snakkede om det.
Kort efter skrev de om årets
Nobelprismodtager på side 4.
Så ringede hun:
"Hvorfor er du ikke på side 4?"
Det er de krav, jeg er vokset op med.
Hvad skal man kunne i mit arbejde?

English: 
- and being threatened that if I didn't
study, I'd end up in the factory.
Now I work in the antimatter factory.
We have hard hats and safety shoes.
I look just like my grandfather
in the 1960s going into this place.
The first big breakthrough for me
was in 2002.
This is after about ten years
of working on this.
We managed to synthesize antihydrogen
in a serious way for the first time.
That changed everything for my career
that we were able to do that.
It was on the front page
of the New York Times.
I made sure that my mother saw it,
and we talked.
A short time later, they announced
the Nobel Prize. It was on page 4.
She called me and said,
"Why aren't you on page 4?"
You get an idea of where I come from.
What you need to do to do my job?

Danish: 
Man skal have en stor viden
inden for abstrakt og basal fysik.
Det særlige ved vores arbejde er,
at hver gang man vil tage et skridt frem -
- har man fem-seks muligheder.
Så prøver man sig frem.
Det er mig, der vælger,
hvad vej vi går.
Hvis man kan nå dertil,
er man nået vidt.
Jeg ser ingen grund til at gå på pension,
medmindre jeg bliver lam.
Hvad er mere interessant end det,
jeg laver? Jeg overvejer det ikke engang.

English: 
You have to know a lot of abstract
and fundamental physics.
If there's an art to what we do, you're
faced with wanting to move forward -
- and you have 5 or 6 possibilities.
We try this. We try this.
I'm the guy
who gets to choose the direction we go.
If you can get that situation in life,
you're in a good state.
I can't imagine retiring or see any
reason to do it, unless I can't move.
What could be more interesting than
what I do? I don't even think about it.
