“Nobel Heroes” in Berlin – Opening of “Lindau Nobel” at Gendarmenmarkt
On 18 May 2026, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings will open “Lindau Nobel” at Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt.
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Breaking Barriers in Science
Presentation of the initiative on Mainau Island on 4 July 2025 Promoting Equity and Wellness in Academia Resilient Global Scientific Community The Formal and Hidden Career Curriculum Sustainable Dialogue Across Generations and
Science Communication: Building Trust, Inclusion, and Integrity
Young Scientists at the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting explored creative, ethical, and inclusive approaches to science communication.
Synonyms for the Lindau Spirit: Inspiration, Connection, Education – Unathi Thango’s Farewell Speech
Unathi Thango shared her thoughts about the #LINOecon week during the Closing Ceremony.
Celebrate Science: Ethics and Social Impact in Focus – Simon H. Johnson’s Personal Lindau Impressions
Simon H. Johnson, 2024 Laureate in Economic Scienes looks back on some of his highlights from the recent 2025 Lindau Meeting and shares his advice to budding economists.
Curious and Empowered by the Lindau Community – Simon Nirenberg’s #LINO25 Farewell Speech
In a heartfelt farewell address at the #LINO25 Closing Ceremony, Simon Nirenberg reflected on the inspiring week in Lindau.
A Light in Dark Times – Moungi G. Bawendi’s Personal Lindau Impressions
Nobel Laureate Moungi G. Bawendi enjoyed the spirit of optimism and enthusiasm he experienced during the Lindau Meeting. He left Lake Constance with new hope for the future.
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2025: Explaining Innovation-Driven Economic Growth
This year’s Economics Laureates illuminate the forces behind economic growth, showing how new ideas and creative destruction together sustain the remarkable economic progress we often take for granted.
Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2025: Peripheral Immune Tolerance
Explore the scientific journey that led to our modern understanding of regulatory T cells: the immune system’s crucial peacekeepers, and understand why this work was announced to be awarded with a Nobel Prize.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: A New Chemical Architecture
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates three scientists who created a new class of cavity-forming molecules capable of capturing substances like carbon dioxide or pharmaceuticals, opening the door to powerful practical applications.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: Putting Quantum Mechanics in the Palm of our Hands
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for bringing quantum physics from the subatomic world onto a chip.
Meeting Minds That Inspire – Reflections from Lindau
Dipa Ghindani, 2024 Lindau Alumna, describes how the Physics Meeting changed her perspective, drive, and confidence as a scientist.
A Life Changing Experience
After #LINO25, Alumna Sajal Arwish says nothing felt the same: the uniquely friendly, one-to-one exchanges with Nobel Laureates – from a panel on circular chemistry & sustainability to a Science Walk with Sir Stanley Whittingham – were truly life-changing.
Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A recap of three perspectives on security in the age of AI, shared at #LINOecon this summer, concludes our blog series covering the Economics Meeting.
Climate Change and Food Security: How to Manage a Web of Global Challenges
Global Challenges: Hunger, Climate, and the Cost of Inaction. At the 2025 Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences, David Beasley warned that hunger and forced migration fuel global instability. In a high-level panel, economists like Lars Peter Hansen and Joseph Stiglitz call for pragmatic climate action, fair carbon pricing, and global cooperation.
Rethinking Governance in the Modern Economy
A satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night – South Korea glowing with economic vitality, North Korea largely dark – captures the stark contrast shaped by governance, institutions, and economic systems. This powerful visual sets the stage for the 2025 Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences. Some sessions referred to this topic.
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From Linear to Circular: Chemistry’s Pathway to Sustainability
It is a decade since the UN adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and this session will focus on the contribution of chemistry to achieving these goals. The panel is to discuss how chemistry research is contributing to overcoming challenges from climate and energy to environment and health.
Ben Feringa
From a lot of badges in his office to the synthesis and light lab. Ben Feringa received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”. Visit his Nobel Lab 360° to find out more about his ground-breaking research!
Edition 2025 (in German)
Discover the Nobel Poster Series 2025 highlighting scientific breakthroughs awarded with the last year’s Nobel Prize. Inspired by groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics, the immune system, organometallic chemistry, and technological innovation, this powerful poster collection fuses science, creativity, and visual storytelling.
Tripolar World
The session that kicked-off the #LINOecon Scientific Programme revolved around some of the fundamental questions affecting research and innovation in today’s world: Which are the links between curiosity-driven research, innovation, and prosperity? Among the high-ranked panelists was Mario Draghi, former Prime Minister of the Italian Republic and former President of the European Central Bank.
John M. Jumper
In 2024, John Jumper became the youngest Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in the past 70 years. In 2025 at #LINO25, he took the stage in Lindau to share insights into solving the long-standing challenge of protein folding.
Albert Schweitzer in Lindau
A short documentary film commemorates the 70th anniversary of the first visit of a Peace Nobel Laureate to a Lindau Meeting. Albert Schweitzer’s visit in 1954 not only marked a new epoch for the Meetings but also had a profound impact on some of the 20th-century’s leading physicists that were assembled in Lindau.
