56th
Meeting of
Nobel Laureates
18th Meeting in Chemistry
June 25th - 30th 2006
Lindau, Lake Constance, Bavaria
I was honoured to attend the 18th Meeting of Nobel
Laureates
in Chemistry among 530 students and young researchers. Here I
would like to give you some information about the
meeting, and present
you some photos showing unforgettable impressions from the meeting.
Undoubtely, the most important participants of the
conference are the
Nobel Laureates.
(picture from http://www.lindau-nobel.de)
The following laureates attended the
18th Meeting in Chemistry:
(by following the
links
you can
find out more about the
Laureates on www.nobelprize.org)
(Please note that many of the
Laureates have won the Nobel prize together
with other Laureates, who are not listed here)
As you can learn from the table, almost every subject
area was represented by one or more Laureates. Fortunately, many
lectures
affected the fields of biochemistry, physical chemistry,
imaging and spectroscopy, my own fields of interest.
About 530 students and young researchers were elected
from approximately
11,000 nominated candidates. A list of participating students and
young researchers could be found at: http://www.lindau-nobel.de/content/view/268/118/.
On Sunday, June 25th, the conference was started by an
opening ceremony
at 5 pm. Speeches were held by Countess Sonja Bernadotte and among
others by Dr. Annette Shavan. The speeches are available from
http://www.lindau-nobel.de/content/category/25/79/64/ . The ceremony was accompanied by music provided by
Slovakian
violin prodigy Ondrej Jánoska and Ukrainian Jeanne Mikitka
on
the piano.
Sunday night, the American delegation hosted a dinner to get to know
young researchers from about 25 different countries.
From Monday to Thursday, in the morning different
lectures were
held by the
laureates, each of the lectures took about 30 minutes or more...The
lectures were
recorded and are available from: http://www.lindau-nobel.de/content/view/294/125/.
The abstracts are available here. In the afternoon, young researchers could share
discussions with the
laureates regarding to the subjects of their lectures or affecting
aspects
of science and society or simply the daily life of a highly honoured
scientist.
Lecture held by Prof. Michel
Lecture held by Prof. Ciechanover
Discussion with Prof. Wüthrich: he is explaning NMR and protein folding with assistance of his belt.
On Monday night, all young researchers were invited
for dinner with the laureates and the guests of honour. By
sitting at table with the
Laureates, young researchers could talk to them in
a relaxed atmosphere. Female young researchers also got the
chance to dance with the laureates at the famous Polonaise. Actually, I
avoided to dance, because I want to come back to Lindau at a later
date...
Suzanne and Jack from Australia
Hwee Ying from Malaysia and Thiago from Brazil
Prof. Sir John E. Walker and myself
On Wednesday night, all participants enjoyed a concert
of the UBS
Verbier Festival Orchestra, playing Mozart, Stravinsky and Haydn.
Finally, on Friday all participants attended a boat trip
from Lindau to
the Island of Mainau,
where the farewell ceremony took place. After a
walk through the famous gardens and the butterfly house, we went back
to Lindau.
...on the boat still in Lindau harbor
in the butterfly house
On Saturday I had to bid farewell to so many people I
met on the
conference. While taking my short trip back to Tuebingen, I had to
remember all the people who have to travel more than 24 hours back to
their homes.
I would like to thank all the people who made the
Meeting of Nobel
Laureates possible and also the people who worked behind the scenes to
secure a smooth run of the conference. I also want to give a great
thank to the "Professor-Rhein-Stiftung", which made the participation
possible for me.
And last but not least I want to greet all students and
young
researchers I had the chance to meet for having fruitful
discussions and a nice
get-together in Lindau.
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