Ageing, God and Lindau: An Interview with Aaron Ciechanover
Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover is talking about medical progress and its implications.
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“We are beginning to understand how cognition works”: Double interview with John O’Keefe and Edvard Moser
Two 2014 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine about childhood, dream jobs and the next big thing in neuroscience.
Malala Yousafzai,”The girl with the book”, is a Nobel Peace Prize winner
With courage and determination, she has become what the Taliban fear the most – a girl with a book. This was how UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon described Malala Yousafzai, who, as a girl blogging out of resistance, has been compared with Anne Frank. She is now a children’s rights activist and the youngest ever […]
Kailash Satyarthi: The Saviour of Childhood
Discover the story of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and 30-year-veteran in the fight for children’s rights.
Stefan Hell: An Unorthodox Mind
His discoveries have revolutionised optics: from a rebellious standpoint to highest academic honours.
Nobel Prize 2014: Seahorses, navigation and love
7 things to know about the 2014 Laureates in Physiology or Medicine and their research.
Nobel rewards economist who told us how to tame the big firms which run our lives
An in-depth look on Jean Tirole’s impact on economics.
Patrick Modiano: The clue hunter
When the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature was announced in October many people in Germany had to look his name up online. Patrick who? A look at a famous unknown.
Illuminated three times – Nobel Prize in Physics for the lighting technology of the 21st century
After decades of research Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura had a decisive breakthrough: The blue LED.
A Statistical View on the 2014 Meetings
609 participants from 80 countries at the 64th Lindau Meeting, and 458 from 86 countries at the 5th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences – these numbers (and there are more!) are too tempting to not look more closely.
New Topic Cluster: Quantum Mechanics
The Lindau Mediatheque is proud to present yet another new topic cluster, this time dealing with quantum mechanics.
Ebola – a Case Study of Scientific Communication
Medical student and Lindau alumnus Yasin Emanee on what the Ebola epidemic taught him about the scientific receptivity of the people in his country.