The Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings deeply mourn the loss of Richard R. Ernst, who was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991 “for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy”. This imaging method has become a central tool of modern medical diagnostics.

Richard R. Ernst participated in eight Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings from 1992.

The Council and Foundation extend their deep sympathies to his whole family – and will remember his advice to young scientists from 2009: “Let your scientific activities become your most beloved passions, and success will not fail to arrive!”

 

The Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings deeply mourn the loss of Robert A. Mundell, who was awarded with the 1999 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”. His work has inspired generations of researchers and dominates fiscal policy in open economies.

Robert A. Mundell participated in the 1^st Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences 2004. He also attended three other Meetings in 2006, 2008 and 2011.

The Council and Foundation extend their deep sympathies to his whole family.

 

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.