40th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Monday, 2 July 1990

10:00 - 10:15 Lecture Lecture
40 years Nobel Prize Winners`meeting in Lindau
10:15 - 11:30 Lecture Lecture
Nobel brought them together
11:30 - 12:05 Lecture LectureThomas Weller
The changing social significance of the cytomegalovirus
12:05 - 12:40 Lecture LectureJean-Marie Lehn
Supramolecular chemistry: scope and perspectives

Tuesday, 3 July 1990

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture LectureSir John Eccles
The brain-mind problem as played out with dendrons and psychons
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture LectureTorsten Wiesel
Brain mechanisms of vision
10:10 - 11:00 Lecture LectureGerald Edelman
Is it possible to construct a perception machine?
11:00 - 11:35 Lecture LectureAllan Cormack
X-ray therapy planning revisited
11:35 - 12:10 Lecture LectureCharles Huggins
Prevention of hydrocarboninduced cancer in rat

Wednesday, 4 July 1990

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture LectureBrian Josephson
consciousness in science
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture LectureManfred Eigen
Virus quasi species, Pandora`s box
10:10 - 11:00 Lecture LectureWerner Arber
Elements of the Microbial Evolution
11:00 - 11:35 Lecture LectureSusumu Tonegawa
Genetic Strategies Used by the Immune System
11:35 - 12:10 Lecture LectureGeorges Köhler
Transgene Mice in Immunology

Thursday, 5 July 1990

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture LectureRosalyn Yalow
Radiation and society
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture LectureRobert Holley
Variability of the cell cycle of mammalian cells
10:10 - 11:00 Lecture LectureCarleton Gajdusek
De novo creation of pathogenic molecules: spontaneous conformational change of host precursor proteins to infectious amyloid polypeptides
11:00 - 11:35 Lecture LectureHamilton Smith
Some Thoughts on the Evolution of Proteins
11:35 - 12:10 Lecture LectureGeorge Hitchings
Investigation of DNA biosynthesis using antimetabolites
12:10 - 12:45 Lecture LectureChristian Anfinsen
Enzymes of hyperthermophilic bacteria

Friday, 6 July 1990

08:00 - 18:00 Boat Trip Boat TripBoat-Trip to the Isle of Mainau for Laureates and students