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Beatrice Lugger

Science in the developing world (Developing world – Ramos-Horta & Shechtman)

What role can science play in the developing world? In this film, Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta and Israeli Nobel laureate Dan Shechtman discuss the issue with young researchers from South Africa, India and the US. Science and politics collide as the group grapple with funding problems, social responsibility and culture. The laureates emphasize […]

Kathleen Raven

Imaging the near invisible with TEM: a master class

Though nanometer-level imaging has come far with transmission electron microscopy, Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman (Nobel Prize 2011, Chemistry) warned his master class audience on Tuesday that today’s images will seem primitive a few years in the future. For now, the five students—all but one of them female—presented research at the edge of what this writer […]

Beatrice Lugger

Bilder sagen mehr als tausend Worte – 360 Grad

Drei Stelen. Auf diesen sind wie kleine Altare angebracht: Je ein iPad. Ein Teilnehmer der 62. Nobelpreisträgertagung steht nun schon eine halbe Stunde an einer dieser Stelen und schubst und dreht Bilder. Muss spannend sein, was da drauf ist. Offenkundig ist dies ein weiteres Projekt das mit Unterstützung der Lindauer Nobelpreisträgertagungen Laureaten in besonderer Form […]

Beatrice Lugger

An expert always checks his own results

One of my personal favorites of the upcoming 62. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting is Dan Shechtman. He is not only an excellent scientist. He had the nerves and verve to fight for his findings for more than one decade. And not at least the quasi-periodic crystals are so beautiful! In this sense Dan Shechtman, Nobel […]