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Kirsty Short

The Geography of Nobel Prize Winning Science

Guest Blogger Kirsty Short Shares some of her thoughts on the geography of the Nobel Prize.

Yasin Emanee

Science and Ethics: Conundrums of Medical Research

Guest Blogger and participant of the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Yasin Emanee on the difficulties of maintaining ethical integrity in research.

Beatrice Lugger

A statement in preparation before the communication panel

‘Why communicate?’ is the title of Thursdays afternoon panel discussion during the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (July 4th). I am very happy that this panel will take place, as I think there is a need to talk about changes in science communication. And I was kindly asked to join this panel together with Simon […]

Ashutosh Jogalekar

Unity and diversity at Lindau

In the last post I described how chemistry more than many other sciences is a land of diversity. This diversity becomes especially apparent when we size up the list of Nobel Laureates who will gather at Lindau this year, especially in terms of their work which spans the fields of chemistry, physics, biology and medicine. […]

Beatrice Lugger

Explaining what it is like to be a woman in a man’s world (physics)!

Ghada Bassioni of Cairo, Egypt takes on the question of women in „the man’s world“ of science. Ghada shows how women are breaking gender stereotypes in Egypt, and gets ideas on women in science from Lindau researchers, Germany’s federal education minister Annette Schavan, and the Countess Bernadotte at Lindau.

Beatrice Lugger

Science, society and why it is important to communicate that at Lindau

Young researchers and Nobel Laureates are trained to deal in complexity inside the world of science. But what responsibility do scientists and researchers have to explain what they are working on, and what they believe in to people outside science? Do scientists, as members of the society, have an obligation

Alexander Bastidas Fry

Chance Favors the Prepared Mind

Chance favors only the prepared mind, said Louis Pasteur. Indeed history is filled with stories of great discoveries through serendipity. As Douglas Osheroff said, "most advances require both insight and good fortune" in his talk about how scientific discoveries are made. Biology is a field that has a particularly interesting history involving good luck as […]

Beatrice Lugger

How Advances in Science are made – Douglas Osheroff

Today Douglas Osheroff discussed his view of “How Advances in Science are Made” at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Some days before the meeting I had a short email conversation with him, where we chatted about his finding, the need of interdisciplinarity of sciences and how he advanced in science. Osheroff was awarded the […]

Lou Woodley

Do scientists need an equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath to ensure ethical conduct?

Many scientific discoveries can have far-reaching consequences when they are applied as new technologies or are used to influence policy decisions. How much is it the responsibility of scientists to be concerned about, and involved with, the use of the knowledge that they contribute to society? Would asking scientists to swear to an equivalent of […]

Beatrice Lugger

Nature Video: Bench or Bedside? With Ferid Murad

  Camelia-Lucia Cimpianu is trying to decide between a career as a researcher or a practising doctor. In this film, she seeks advice from Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad who faced the same dilemma as a medical student in the 1960s. Murad chose the bench, and he subsequently discovered that a gas called nitric oxide (NO) […]

Beatrice Lugger

Panel Discussion: Being a (Responsible) Scientist – Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2011

with Nobel Laureates Edmond Fischer, Sir Harold Kroto and Thomas Steitz

Jessica Riccò

Nobel questions – Lindau answers. The students‘ point of view.

Prior to the Nobel meeting young researches had the oppurtunity to send in questions – we called that section "Nobel questions, Lindau answers". In the last days I interviewed a couple of young scientists who replied to these questions – and may lead to more discussion in the commentaries of this posting.  Today’s young scientists […]