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Mohit Kumar Jolly

Tracing proteins in living cells – Martin Chalfie and GFP

Not only friends on Facebook, but also proteins in a cell can be tagged. Yes!

Gero von der Stein

Núria’s Video Blog Post 2013

In today’s Lindau Video blog, Núria Sancho Oltra of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne explores the many aspects of learning at Lindau – what researchers learn from the Laureates, from each other and what learning at Lindau will mean for their ongoing research. More videos by attendees at the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ashutosh Jogalekar

Lost in translation

In 1969, one of the more memorable incidents in the public advocacy of science took place. The American physicist Robert Wilson was asked to testify before Congress in support of the construction of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, known as Fermilab. For Wilson, building this huge machine had been a labor of love and nobody […]

Lou Woodley

Personalities, puns and pictures in the plenaries

We’ve all had bad experiences of sitting in lectures, trying to focus on the slides while feeling like we’re really missing out on the key points of the subject. You want to stay motivated and learn something new, but somehow the speaker doesn’t make it easy for you. How to encourage good science communication was […]

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.