Heather Gray, originally from South Africa and currently working at CERN, is one of the attendees producing a video diary to document her time at the Lindau meeting this year. I caught up with her over email just before the start of the meeting to find out what a day’s work at CERN is really like – […]
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 […]
One of the recurrent themes at the Lindau meetings,and one reason that I’m pleaseed to have been involved for three years now, is that of education. It’s often mentioned in the more formal opening presentations, but it’s also apparent in the interests of number of the laureates (and not just those in science) who, after […]
Does anyone, who joins the Lindau Meeting know, why 20 to 30 Nobel Laureates meet at this beautiful spot with young researchers every year since 1951? Did Alfred Nobel live in Lindau? Not at all. In 1951 two physicians in Lindau, six years after the end of World War II, thought of how to overcome […]
MP: Hi Rike – and thanks for agreeing to do this interview! Could you please introduce yourself to our readers? RM-W: I’m Rike Müller-Werkmeister, and I’m almost finished with my PhD at the Institute for Biophysics of Frankfurt University. For my thesis, I’m investigating biomolecular dynamics, using ultra-short laser pulses, and artificial aminoacids as new […]
6 out of 592 young researchers show us, where they come from. In words and pictures. On Monday the first of this year’s Lindau Video Diarists have uploaded their videos – about themselves, their hopes and their research topics. Now all of them have done so and you may travel with us via these videos […]
This is the 61th year that the Nobel Laureate Meetings have been held at Lindau. The conference was held for the first time in 1951, funded by the wealthy count Lennart Bernadotte, as an effort to restore the international scientific ties that had been severed by the war. The count’s daughter, Bettina Bernadotte, has been […]
The Nature Video team are becoming regulars at the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting; each year they return to create several short films that capture conversations between the Nobel Laureates and the young scientists. Because these mentoring sessions usually take place behind closed doors, the videos are an important way of sharing the spirit of the […]
Something that I’ve been thinking about a lot in the past month or so is whether scientists are “anti-social”, particularly with respect to adopting online tools and social media, many of which are designed to promote greater collaboration. Are scientists restricted by the research cycle, which encourages researchers to hold data close to their chest […]
Every year Nobel Laureates make,A week-long retreat by a beautiful lake. They’re joined by researchers especially selectedTo have their dreams discussed and perfected. This is a chance no one expects to get twice;Time to ask your hero for direct advice! What did they do to win the Prize?Was it sweat and toil, or a complete […]
When I glossed over the list of Nobel laureates that attended the Lindau conferences in the first few decades, I was ashamed to discover that I only recognized a few. And when I did, it was rarely because I was familiar with the laureate or his work. I only knew the Nobel laureate Otto Warburg […]
Come June the 26th, hundreds of scientists will travel to Lindau, a small German town and island near the Swiss border. Twenty five of these scientists have received one of the highest honours a scientist can get. They are winners of the Nobel Prize, in chemistry or medicine. For almost a week, they will share […]
