60th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here. 09:00 - 09:35 LectureAda E. Yonath
The Amazing Ribosome 09:30 - 10:00 LectureJack W. Szostak
Learning about the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell 10:00 - 10:30 LectureJohn Mather
The History of the Universe, from the Beginning to the Ultimate End 11:00 - 11:30 LectureHarald zur Hausen
Human Cancers Linked to Infections 11:30 - 12:00 LectureLuc Montagnier
DNA between Physics and Biology 12:00 - 12:30 LectureFrançoise Barré-Sinoussi
HIV, a Discovery Highlighting the Global Benefit of Translational Research 14:30 - 15:45 LecturePaul Crutzen
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureChristiane Nüsslein-Volhard
On the Genetic Basis of Morphological Evolution (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureRobert Laughlin
When Coal is Gone (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureRoy Glauber
What is Quantum Optics? (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureF. Sherwood Rowland
Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureHamilton Smith
Building a Synthetic Bacterial Cell (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureJohann Deisenhofer
Structural Studies on Cholesterol Transport (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureGeorge Smoot
Mapping the Universe and Its History (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureNicolaas Bloembergen
50 Years of Lasers (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureRobert Wilson
The Discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and its Role in Cosmology (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureCarlo Rubbia
The Underground Physics: Neutrino and Dark Matter (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureArno Penzias
Energy Advances — What’s New; What’s Next: What’s Missing 09:00 - 09:30 LectureRoger Tsien
Designing Molecules and Nanoparticles to Help See and Treat Disease 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture
The Heartbeat of Light 10:00 - 10:30 LectureRobert Horvitz
Programmed Cell Death in Development and Disease 11:00 - 11:30 LectureMartin Chalfie
Adventures in Nontranslational Research 14:30 - 15:45 LectureBrian Josephson
Life, Extended Mind, and Fundamental Physics (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureLeland Hartwell
Your Grand Challenge: Developing a Sustainable World (Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureRobert Huber
Basic Science and Co-entrepreneurship, my Experience (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureWerner Arber
Genetic and Cultural Impacts on the Course of Biological Evolution (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureSir Harold Kroto
The Revolutionary Impact of the GOOYouWiki World (GYWW) on Education and Student Success (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureWalter Kohn
Can Math and Optical Physics help people with Macular Degeneration of the Eye? (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureAvram Hershko
Roles of Protein Degradation in Health and Disease (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureEdmond Fischer
The Origin of Reversible Protein Phosphorylation (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureRyoji Noyori
Molecular Catalysis for Green Chemistry (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureR. Timothy (Tim) Hunt
Getting In and Out of Mitosis (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureErwin Neher
Biophysics of Short-term Synaptic Plasticity (Lecture + Discussion) 09:00 - 09:30 LectureAaron Ciechanover
Why our Proteins Have to Die so We Shall Live 09:30 - 10:00 LectureGerardus 't Hooft
The Big Challenges 10:00 - 10:30 LectureSir Martin J. Evans
Mice, Men and Medicine 11:00 - 11:30 LectureOliver Smithies
Chance, Opportunity and Planning in Science 11:30 - 12:00 LectureDavid Gross
Frontiers of Physics 12:00 - 12:30 LectureKurt Wüthrich
Structural Genomics and the Expanding Universe of Protein Sequences 14:30 - 15:45 LectureIvar Giaever
From Biology to Physics (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureFerid Murad
Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP and Application to Drug Development (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureRichard Ernst
Let Us Develop Concepts for a Beneficial Global Future! (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureRobert Richardson
The Looming World Shortage of Helium (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureMario Molina
Climate Change and Sustainable Development (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureGerhard Ertl
From Disorder to Order (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureHartmut Michel
Oxygen Reduction and Water Formation in Biology - Enzymes, Structures, Mechanisms (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LecturePeter Grünberg
The Physical Foundations of Harmony in Music, including live demonstrations by Peter A.Grünberg together with soprano Keiko Hibi (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureYuan Lee
Dynamics of Chemical Reactions and Photochemical Processes (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureMartinus Veltman
The Development of Particle Physics (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 LectureRudolph Marcus
Experimental surprises and their solution in theory (Lecture + Discussion) 09:00 - 09:30 LectureJean-Marie Lehn
Perspectives in Chemistry: Towards Adaptive Chemistry 09:30 - 10:00 LectureJames Cronin
Cosmic Rays: the Most Energetic Particles in the Universe 10:00 - 10:30 LectureSir John Walker
How Energy is Converted in Biology 11:00 - 11:30 LectureAlbert Fert
The World of Spintronics: Electrons, Spins, Computers and Telephones 14:30 - 15:45 LecturePeter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 LectureChristian de Duve
Natural Selection and the Future of Life (Lecture + Discussion)