Most of us know about the prize-winning work of this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureates, but how many of us keep track of what they did after winning the coveted honor? Scientists’ lives after the Nobel Prize change dramatically. As former Lindau attendee Richard Ernst put it, they are now expected to be oracles on everything […]
10 days ago, I was lucky enough to attend the World Science Festival in New York City. One of the sessions I attended was called “Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius,” where a panel composed of successful individuals from the arts and sciences discussed the history, culture and neuroscience of genius. (Read more in the […]
Twenty five years ago, the discovery of the ozone hole above the Antarctic made waves. The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, which protects Planet Earth from 90% of the sun’s ultraviolet rays, diminished. Only two years later, in 1987, the Montreal Protocol was signed. There would not have been a chance to stop this […]
Turning the Tables at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2010 The Nature Publishing Group (NPG) selected six talented young scientists to face five Nobel Laureates in a marvellous event that was very aptly named ‘Turning the Tables’. The aim of the event was to move the focus, for a short time, from the laureates to […]
One unique aspect of this year’s meeting is that we asked on for input also from those who were unable to attend in person, inviting them to submit questions to the Laureates via our online Q&A competition. Some of the most popular questions as voted by readers of the site are already answered by Nobel […]
Prior to the Nobel meeting young researches had the oppurtunity to send in questions – we called that section "Nobel questions, Lindau answers". In the last days I interviewed a couple of young scientists who replied to these questions – and may lead to more discussion in the commentaries of this posting. Today’s young scientists […]
Oliver Smithies is one of the masters of giving motivational talks to young researchers. The talk he gave on Wednesday is only a slight variation of his Nobel lecture in 2007 (video and slides can be found here), or the presentation I heard in 2008 at the International Congress of Genetics. But as Eva Amsen said in a Twitter […]
Energy and sustainability are this year’s focus for the panel discussion and the exhibition on the Isle of Maine. A couple of thoughts in advance (1). About 80 percent of the world’s energy needs today are met by fossil fuels: oil, coal and gas. The combustion of materials millions of years old has made humans […]
In diesem Jahr stehen auf der Mainau Energie und Nachhaltigkeit im Zentrum von Diskussion und Ausstellung. Dazu ein paar Gedanken vorab (1). Rund 80 Prozent des weltweiten Energiebedarfs werden heute mit den fossilen Brennstoffen Öl, Kohle und Gas abgedeckt. Mit dem Verbrennen der Jahrmillionen alten Stoffe wurden die Menschen immer mobiler und die Industrialisierung beschleunigt. […]
We’ve all had bad experiences of sitting in lectures, trying to focus on the slides while feeling like we’re really missing out on the key points of the subject. You want to stay motivated and learn something new, but somehow the speaker doesn’t make it easy for you. How to encourage good science communication was […]
Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen will be at Lindau this year, along with his fellow recipient F. Sherwood Rowland. The two along with Mario Molina contributed to one of the most significant intersections of science with politics and public policy in the twentieth century when they discovered the effects of chlorofluorocarbons and other chemical compounds on […]
Markita is one of 650 young researchers from 70 countries who will attend the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.
