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Beatrice Lugger

P. Harshavardhan Reddy’s nominator for the Meeting

India’s P. Harshavardhan Reddy was nominated to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physics) by the University of Hyderabad, supported by The OPEC Fund for International Development and the Department of Science and Technology in India. Prof. D. Narayana Rao explains why the Lindau Nobel meeting is important for the University of Hyderabad and […]

Beatrice Lugger

Heather Gray wants to get a feeling for exciting new ideas at Lindau

“I hope to get a feeling for the exciting new ideas that are being discussed.” 2012 Lindau Nobel Video Diarist Heather Gray of South Africa explains what she expects to discover at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physics).

Beatrice Lugger

Heather Gray’s nominator for the Meeting

CERN of Switzerland nominated Video Diarist Heather Gray of South Africa to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physics). Head of the ATLAS Physics Team Prof. Daniel Froidevaux explains why the Lindau Nobel meeting is important for CERN and for young researchers.

Beatrice Lugger

Ghada Bassioni from Egypt looks forward to learning from colleagues at Lindau

“This is something I really dreamed of.” 2012 Lindau Nobel Video Diarist Dr. Ghada Bassioni of Cairo, Egypt explains what she expects to discover at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physics).

Beatrice Lugger

Ghada Bassioni presents her nominators – DAAD and her faculty

Ghada Bassioni of Cairo, Egypt was nominated to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physics) by the DAAD and her Faculty of Engineering at the Ain Shams University. Prof. Dr. Sherif Hammad, the dean of the Faculty,

Beatrice Lugger

Pascal Neibecker seeks international inspiration at Lindau

“Building up a network of specialists in my field that I hope will last for a real long time.” Pascal Neibecker of Augsburg, Germany, one of this year’s Lindau Nobel Video Diarists, talks about what he hopes to experience at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physics).

Beatrice Lugger

Pascal Neibecker’s nominator for the Meeting

The Elite Network Bavaria nominated Video Diarist Pascal Niebecker of Augsburg, Germany to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Physics). Beate Lindner, head of the Coordination Office of the Elite Network of Bavaria,

Alexander Bastidas Fry

CERN, Dark Energy, and Dark Matter

When you throw together six distinguished physicists (David Gross, John Mather, Carlo Rubbia, George Smoot, Gerardus ’t Hooft, and Martinus Veltman) into debate on what CERN will teach us about the dark energy and dark matter you can’t guarantee the same kind harmony that these physicists strive for in their own theories. There was a majority agreement […]

Alexander Bastidas Fry

The future of biomedicine is in neuroscience?

The impact of chemistry and physics to biomedicine apparently has its future in neuroscience according to Erwin Neher. The entire panel discussed various topics (you can read about some of the highlights here), but for me Neher dominated the conversation with his visions of the brain. Erwin Neher (who moved from physics to neuroscience during his […]

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Robert Laughlin: Alles wird gut!

Unter all den Zukunftsoptimisten, die ich bis jetzt gesehen habe, ist der Physik-Nobelpreisträger Robert B. Laughlin zweifellos einer der unbekümmertsten. Er ignoriert einfach mal die leidige Klima- und Ressourcenpolitik des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts und springt sechs Generationen in die Zukunft, ins Jahr 2210. In eine Welt ohne Kohle oder Erdöl. Das sind die Rahmenbedingungen für […]

Alexander Bastidas Fry

The History of the Universe

John Mather is humble when describing his measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation despite the fact that Steven Hawking described this measurement as possibly the most important discovery humans have ever made. The cosmic microwave background radiation is the remnant glow of the Big Bang; it is the primary evidence.  Mather is careful to […]

Alexander Bastidas Fry

Planes, Trains, and Einstein

I have spent an entire day traveling and toiling against the turning of the earth to get to Lindau. To pass the time on the plane over the Atlantic I read Albert Einstein’s short book Relativity (the subtitles for this English version are the special and general theory or a clear explanation that anyone can understand). […]