Photoblog: what’s Lindau actually like?
Are you curious to know what it’s actually like to be at Lindau? Where do the lectures take place and where do we write our blogs? I’ve included a few pictures from the last 2 days to give a flavour of what it’s like to be here. If these photos have whet your appetite, you […]
Video Diary by young researcher Unuabonah – Part I lnlm10
Emmanuel Iyayi Unuabonah, Nigeria, Redeemer’s University, presents his first impressions of Lindau and the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2010 and asking other young researchers at the meeting
Opening Ceremony 2010 – Statements young researchers
2010 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Opening Ceremony Statements Young Researchers
A history with future: the Lindau Meetings
After the opening speeches by many people associated with the Lindau meetings there was a small panel discussion on the meetings. The panel consisted of a Lindau alumnus of the 1959 meeting, Horst Grimme; a Lindau alumnus of 2008, Bilge Demirkoz; Winner of Physics Nobel 1973, Ivar Giaver and Winner of Chemistry Nobel 2004, Aaron Ciechanover. Horst […]
The travelling is over, now the exploration can begin
Like a chemotactic bacterium sensing its way towards a food source, I made my route to Lindau on Saturday. At Zurich station I met a Japanese post-doc who was also traveling from Cambridge and later in the journey we both met another researcher from New York, also heading to this year’s Nobel Laureates Meeting. While […]
Making Movies – an interview with the Nature film team
In 2008, 2009 and again this year, the Nature podcast and video team have attended the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings and produced several short films around them. I talked to Charlotte Stoddart who is the Director and Producer of the films, and Martin Freeth who works with the film crew every year as an Executive […]
Planes, Trains, and Einstein
I have spent an entire day traveling and toiling against the turning of the earth to get to Lindau. To pass the time on the plane over the Atlantic I read Albert Einstein’s short book Relativity (the subtitles for this English version are the special and general theory or a clear explanation that anyone can understand). […]
Griass aich! Or: Where on earth am I?
Welcome to Lindau. Apparently, you’re one of the non-German readers of this blog and in that case maybe even one of the lucky scientists who will travel to this picturesque town next week. If it is your first visit to Germany you should definetely try to see a little more than Lindau – especially because […]
How the Lindau meeting contributes to the celebration of science
Discoveries in science are rarely celebrated on the scale that great art is or major sporting achievements are. Has Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2 received the same amount of attention that the Mona Lisa on display in the Louvre in Paris has? Probably not. And yet, it has contributed a lot more to society. […]
Lindau at Lake Constance: A quick survival guide
Lindau at Lake Constance – a name that promises pure adventure. Yet before you, temerarious young researcher oder you, fearless journalist or you, wise Nobel Laureate travel to reach the Swabian countryside, you should consider the following five security references: 1. Pack the beekeeper’s suit. Or protect yourself in a different way from hungry midges. […]
60 Years – The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
This picture gallery gives impressions of the past 60 years of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Educating, Inspiring an Connecting Scientific Generations since 1951
Reflections on Nobel City
Cities, just like human beings, have character. The character is frequently defined by little things as well as big. For instance New York is The Big Apple, Paris the city of fashion, Sydney the city with the Opera House and Rio de Janeiro the carnival city. Small cities are also known for their own accomplishments. […]