Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019: How Batteries Electrified Our World
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”. Therewith, the three laureates laid the foundation of our electrified, mobile, modern world.
Active Learning with Carl E. Wieman: Don’t Lecture Me!
Nobel Laureate Carl Wiemann and several education practitioners and experts discussed the educational method of active learning during the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019: Hints to Some of Our Deepest Cosmological Questions
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics recognises three researchers who expanded humanity’s horizons on the grandest of scales, contributing to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and our place within it.
Women in Research at #LINO19: Laura Pereira Sánchez from Spain
#LINO19 Lindau Alumna Laura Pereira Sánchez from Spain talks about her career path, her favourite projects and more in this interview with Ulrike Böhm.
How to Weigh an Atom: Francis W. Aston’s Mass Spectrograph
It’s 100 years since Nobel Laureate Francis W. Aston built his first mass spectrograph - a groundbreaking invention that was to launch the field of mass spectrometry, with applications in science, medicine and beyond.
This year, Nobel Laureate Duncan Haldane attended the Lindau Meetings for the first time. Science writer Ben Skuse explains the topological concept for which Haldane received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.