The Council of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has updated the planning for the upcoming Lindau Meetings. Thus, the 70^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Interdisciplinary) will take place as announced from 27 June – 2 July 2021 – under the then applicable conditions, to which the organizers will react flexibly.

As regards the Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences, the Council agreed on a change of plans: In order to enable participation for as many international Nobel Laureates and young economists as possible, especially those from overseas, the 7^th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences will be postponed for another year, taking place from 23 – 27 August 2022.

On Monday, 12 October 2020, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced their decision to award the 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel jointly to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.”

Learn more about the 2020 Prize in Economic Sciences here. 

On Friday, 9 October 2020, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme (WFP) “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.”

Find out more about the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize here.

The Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings deeply mourn the loss of Mario Molina, who was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 for his research in Atmospheric Chemistry. His work had an important impact on the knowledge about the ozone hole.

This summer Mario J. Molina participated in the Online Science Days 2020 and enriched the debate “Communicating Climate Change”. From 1998 on he was six times in Lindau for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.

The Council and Foundation extend their deep sympathies to Mario Molinas’ whole family.

 

On Thursday, 8 October 2020, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature to Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

Find out more about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature here.

 

On Wednesday, 7 October 2020, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”.

Find out more about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry here.

On Tuesday, 6 October 2020, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea M. Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.

Find out more about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics here.

On Monday, 5 October 2020, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

Find out more about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine here.

The Council and Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings deeply mourn the loss of Sten Orrenius, Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Professor Orrenius was a member of the Nobel Assembly (1971 – 2003), a member of the Nobel Committee (1983 – 1989, 1996 – 2002) at Karolinska Institutet and of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (since 1989).

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings he was a founding member of the Foundation and a member of the Council from 1993 – 2003, since then he continued to support the Lindau Meetings as a Corresponding Council Member. The Council and Foundation extend their deep sympathies to Sten Orrenius’ wife Birgit and the whole family.