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Exploring the Connections Between Sports and Science with Kurt Wüthrich

Meeri Kim

Exploring the Connections Between Sports and Science with Kurt Wüthrich

Wüthrich's master class explores the science of sports as explained by the athletes: Dominique Gisin, a downhill skiing gold medalist, and Bettina Heim, a former pro figure skater. Wüthrich's master class explores the science of sports as explained by the athletes: Dominique Gisin, a downhill skiing gold medalist, and Bettina Heim, a former pro figure skater.

Beatrice Lugger

Trailer Lindau Nature video: Better living through chemistry

At this summer’s Lindau Meeting we focused on pressing world problems and how chemistry can help us to solve them. In four films, laureates and students clash over the future of energy production, grapple with drug development, discuss dwindling supplies of metal catalysts and debate science’s role in the developing world. Get a taste in […]

Kathleen Raven

Energy storage, rare metals and the next ice age

The holy grail of energy storage may lie in chemical bonds, but a process for making this happen remains unknown. All of the Nobel Laureates who weighed in yesterday on a chemical energy conversion panel agreed on this much. “Replacement of liquid fossil fuels is still in far reach,” said moderator Wolfgang Lubitz, director of […]

Gero von der Stein

Lindau’s 2013 Video Bloggers

Four young researchers are creating personal video blogs to share their impressions, encounters and experiences at Lindau. In a preview of the week to come, Edson Medeiros Filho, Sarika Goel, Núria Sancho Oltra and Crystal Valdez explain why they think the exchange between cultures and generations is important in science… and what they expect from […]

Kathleen Raven

Behind the greatest experiments: basic research

Insight must precede application.  — Max Planck, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1918 One summer day a young Martin Chalfie walked out of a lab after a particularly frustrating experiment. He thought—quite erroneously—that the life of a scientist was not for him. After teaching high school chemistry for some years, he gave one more try. Working […]

Simon Engelke

What to learn from Nobel Laureates

Being able to meet 35 Nobel laureates is a rare and highly desirable opportunity. A question that arises when preparing to meet people of such stature is: What can we learn from them? It was my good fortune that I already had the chance to meet one of the laureates – Paul Crutzen (Nobel Prize […]

Martin Fenner

Roger Tsien: Science should be beautiful

Today I talked with Roger Tsien about his research leading to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP). I learned that visually beautiful research results are the best motivation, and that winning a Nobel Prize doesn’t mean that papers and grants come easily – you might still have […]

Ashutosh Jogalekar

Paul Crutzen’s Other Big Idea

Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen will be at Lindau this year, along with his fellow recipient F. Sherwood Rowland. The two along with Mario Molina contributed to one of the most significant intersections of science with politics and public policy in the twentieth century when they discovered the effects of chlorofluorocarbons and other chemical compounds on […]

Beatrice Lugger

Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2003, Interview 2009

00:32 Channel-Mediated Water Permeability? 02:17 A 28kD Protein 06:36 Deciphering the Structure 09:33 New Frontiers In Coproduction with JoVe.com Sponsored by Mars. published June 2009

Ashutosh Jogalekar

Microwaves, magnetism and machine grease: a paean to tool-driven science

John Turton Randall was trying hard, real hard. For some time now, the University of Birmingham physicist was focusing on trying to improve the features of a machine which transmitted and received electromagnetic waves. A few years back this would have been just another intriguing academic problem for a physicist to crack, but this time it […]

Beatrice Lugger

Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2008, Interview 2009

The animal is transparent: 04:04 Ghia Euskirchen 09:12 Lessons from the GFP-Story In Coproduction with JoVe.com July 2009 Sponsored by Mars.

Beatrice Lugger

Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2008, Interview 2009

00:32 Developing Genetically Encoded Macromolecular Indicators 08:02 Infrared-Fluorescent Proteins, IFPs 10:54 On the Nobel Prize and the Importance of Team Effort In Coproduction with JoVe.com Sponsored by Mars.Ro – July 2009