The Council and Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings deeply mourns the loss of laureate Thomas Steitz, who sadly passed away on 9 October 2018 at the age of 78. He received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies on ribosomes. Steitz completed his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard University in […]
On Monday, 8 October 2018, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced their decision to award the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to William D. Nordhaus “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” and Paul M. Romer “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis”. Learn more about the 2018 Prize […]
On Friday, 5 October 2018 the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.“ Find out more about the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize here.
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On Wednesday, 3 October 2018, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 to Frances H. Arnold “for the directed evolution of enzymes” and to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”. Find out more about the 2018 Nobel Prize […]
On Tuesday, 2 October 2018, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their breakthrough inventions in the field of laser physics. Find out more about the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics here.
On Monday, 1 October 2018, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation. Find out more about the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology here.
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The Council and Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings mourn the loss of laureate Sir James A. Mirrlees, who died on 29 August 2018, age 82. The British economist co-received the Sverige Rikesbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1996 for fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. He was Emeritus […]
On 8 August 2018, the renewed conference center Inselhalle held its official opening ceremony. The meeting venue, which has been home to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings since the 1980s, had undergone extensive reconstruction and modernisation measures in the past two years. In his address, the Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder noted that the new Inselhalle […]
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Our newest Nobel Lab 360° features 2013 Nobel Laureate Randy W. Schekman. This virtual tour through the Schekman lab at the University of California, Berkeley, shows you his office, the main lab and the cell sorter. Randy Schekman and his team introduce their current work on how human cells manufacture small membrane vesicles containing RNA […]
