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The Nobel Laureate Meetings are commemorating the 100th birthday of their co-founder, Count Lennart Bernadotte (1909-2004), with the launch of a project in science history: lectures held by Nobel Laureates over the past six decades at the Meetings in Lindau will be digitalized and made accessible online starting May 8 - Count Lennart's 100th birthday - at www.lindau-nobel.de. With the project, the Council and Foundation of the Nobel Laureate Meetings encourage young people's interest in science and research within their "Mission: Education". This project in science history has been made possible by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
The Nobel Laureate Meetings are commemorating the 100th birthday of their co-founder, Count Lennart Bernadotte (1909-2004), with the launch of a project in science history: lectures held by Nobel Laureates over the past six decades at the Meetings in Lindau will be digitalized and made accessible online starting May 8 - Count Lennart's 100th birthday - at www.lindau-nobel.de. Notable researchers like Rita Levi-Montalcini, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Konrad Lorenz and James Watson will share their experiences - of working in the laboratory, or even of the pathway to making groundbreaking discoveries. Listeners will be able to understand their successes, failures, and unexpected detours. With the project, the Council and Foundation of the Nobel Laureate Meetings encourage young people's interest in science and research within their "Mission: Education".
"Count Lennart Bernadotte thought it was very important to record the lectures during the Nobel Laureate Meetings and to preserve them for future generations. That is why I'm especially pleased that we will be able to unbury this 'treasure' for scientific enthusiasts everywhere and make it available on our website in honour of his 100th birthday," says Countess Bettina Bernadotte, President of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
The first eleven lectures - held at Nobel Laureate Meetings from 1968 to 1993 - will be accessible starting May 8, 2009. The Nobel Laureate in Physics from 1915, Lawrence Bragg, describes the complexity of crystallographic processes for determining the structure of protein molecules in his lecture from 1968. Bragg had been focusing on this area of work together with scientists (and Nobel Laureates) like Max Perutz and Francis Crick since 1938. The second woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Rosalyn Yalow (1977), can also be heard. Ragnar Frisch, who won the first-ever Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel along with Jan Tinbergen in 1969, offers an optimistic view of the potential uses for "Computer Science" - a method that still remains relevant today in light of the current international economic crisis. Rita Levi-Montalcini (Physiology or Medicine, 1986), who was born the same year as Count Lennart Bernadotte and is celebrating her 100th birthday this year, discusses the "Magna Charta of Human Duties". This catalogue of human responsibilities, which was in progress at the time, made it possible to effectively implement declarations of human rights.
This project in science history has been made possible by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The first phase of the project began six months ago with the digitalization of the audio documents - cassettes and audio tapes dating from 1951 to 2000 - and securing them for future use. The digitalization process will be finished by summer. At the same time, Professor Anders Bárány (Stockholm) is simultaneously sorting through the comprehensive material to choose Nobel Laureate lectures that are suitable for publication on www.lindau-nobel.de. Professor Bárány then creates brief introductions to the audio files provided online, placing them in a historical context and providing a quick introduction of the lecturing Laureate. The lectures are available as Flash movies on the Internet Mediatheque. Each lecture is accompanied by photos of the Laureates at the Nobel Laureate Meetings.
Lectures by the following Nobel Laureates will also be made available online during the first phase of the project: Rudolf Mößbauer (Physics, 1961), Albert Szent-Györgyi (Physiology or Medicine, 1937), Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin (Chemistry, 1964), Ulf von Euler (Physiology or Medicine, 1970), Paul Dirac (Physics, 1933), Gerhard Herzberg (Chemistry, 1971) and Friedrich von Hayek (Economics 1974).
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
The Nobel Laureate Meetings in Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics have been taking place on Lake Constance annually since 1951. The Council and Foundation have also been hosting Meetings in Economic Sciences since 2004. This year, 22 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry will be meeting with 600 carefully selected young scientists from 66 countries from June 28 - July 3. This year's meetings will commemorate the 100th birthday of their co-founder, Count Lennart Bernadotte (1909-2004). The goal of these one-of-a-kind events is to foster communication between highly qualified young scientists from all over the world and the most renowned representatives of their scientific discipline.
Count Lennart Bernadotte (1909-2004)
Together with two Lindau physicians, Professor Gustav Parade and Dr. Franz Karl Hein, Count Lennart Bernadotte founded the Nobel Laureate Meetings. As the first President of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, he influenced their development as an international platform for more than 30 years. Thanks to his long-lasting dedication, an event that had originally been intended to bring young German scientists closer to international research following World War II became a one-of-a-kind forum for young scientists all over the world.
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Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin (Chemistry 1984) with young researchers at the Lindau Meetin ...
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Nobel Laureate Werner Heisenberg (Physics 1932) and young researchers at the Lindau Meeting, 1971.
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin (Chemistry 1984) with young researchers at the Lindau Meetin ...
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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Nobel Laureate Werner Heisenberg (Physics 1932) and young researchers at the Lindau Meeting, 1971.
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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