When I visited Lindau this year I experienced a mix of hopes and fears. The hopes came from the Nobel Prize winners and the young students and researchers gathered there. As a supposedly unbiased observer it was my job to provide skepticism and express fears. What was the source of the fears? The problem was […]
und sind auch begeisterte Forscher sowie Experimentatoren. Aber jetzt erst einmal von Anfang an: Ja gestern war wohl der turbulenteste Tag meines bisherigen Reporterlebens. Ich stand sehr früh auf -obwohl ich kein ‚Scientific Breakfast‘ hatte- und war um Punkt 8.30 Uhr in unserem Konferenzgebäude in der Lobb, wo ich wie üblich für eines der vereinbarten […]
In today’s Lindau Video blog, Núria Sancho Oltra of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne explores the many aspects of learning at Lindau – what researchers learn from the Laureates, from each other and what learning at Lindau will mean for their ongoing research. More videos by attendees at the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting […]
Avram Hershko – an amiable, mild-mannered Israeli biochemist – shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his co-discovery of the body’s protein waste disposal system along with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose. At Lindau Hershko delivered a succinct summary of the discovery of ubiquitin – a protein that essentially tags unwanted and defective proteins […]
In today’s Lindau Video Blog, Edson Medeiros Filho of the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy explores three aspects of the theme „Connect“ … learning what „connecting“ is all about at Lindau, the best methods to make connections among the researchers and Laureates, and finding out why getting connected is important both in science, and in life.[hr] […]
Gestern Nachmittag war ihr großer Auftritt. Fünf Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus den USA, Israel, Deutschland und Kanada präsentierten in der Master Class von Dan Shechtman, Nobelpreisträger für Chemie 2011, im alten Rathaus in Lindau ihre aktuellen Forschungsprojekte. Jeder von ihnen arbeitet mit TEM, Transmissionselektronenmikroskopen, einem Herzstück auch der Arbeiten von Shechtman, wie etwa die 360 Grad Labor-Aufnahmen […]
Though nanometer-level imaging has come far with transmission electron microscopy, Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman (Nobel Prize 2011, Chemistry) warned his master class audience on Tuesday that today’s images will seem primitive a few years in the future. For now, the five students—all but one of them female—presented research at the edge of what this writer […]
Gestern morgen startete Brian K. Kobilka, seines Zeichens Nobelpreisträger 2012 für Chemie, die offizielle Vortragsreihe des 63. Tagung der Nobelpreisträger in Lindau. Schon an der großen Anzahl an Kameras und Journalisten konnte man erkennen, dass ein aktueller Nobelpreis und somit ein neuer Redner großes öffentliches Interesse generiert. Und Brian K. Kobilka enttäuschte die große Zuhörerschaft […]
How do scientists deal with difficult challenges in research? How do they find the inspiration not only to keep going? How to inspire the next generation? In today’s Lindau Video Blog, Sarika Goel of UC Berkeley, USA, asked Laureates and young researchers what they think.
Crystal Valdez is part of this year’s official video blog team – and as a talented researcher one out of more than 600 young researchers who will attend the 63rd Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau. Actually she is a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the chemistry & biochemistry department. […]
Working out what happened in the moments after the Big Bang is difficult. Scientists can come up with theories, but in the end they are useful only if they can be tested. Nobel prizewinner Robert Laughlin is passionate about experiments. He challenges the students
The majority of Nobel prizewinners are men, including the two in this film: Harry Kroto and Dudley Herschbach. This gender imbalance worries the young researchers who join them at a German school to debate the state of science education and how science
