Nobel winning physicist Hiroshi Amano succeeds by doing what he likes

Hiroshi Amano, the 2014 Nobel laureate in physics, has told an audience at a talk at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University that he managed to become a prize winner by doing what he likes.

"I never considered my 1,500 unsuccessful experiments as failures, because there was development each time. I believed if I had enough time I could make it," the 54-year-old Japanese said.

Amano (pictured) and Toshihide Maskawa, who won the same award in 2008, addressed the topic of nurturing future scientists at the talk attended by high school and university students. Maskawa said anyone who wanted to be a scientist should follow their dream and make it come true.