60th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Ada E. Yonath
The Amazing Ribosome 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Jack W. Szostak
Learning about the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell 10:00 - 10:30 Lecture John Mather
The History of the Universe, from the Beginning to the Ultimate End 11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Harald zur Hausen
Human Cancers Linked to Infections 11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Luc Montagnier
DNA between Physics and Biology 12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
HIV, a Discovery Highlighting the Global Benefit of Translational Research 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Paul Crutzen
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
On the Genetic Basis of Morphological Evolution (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Robert Laughlin
When Coal is Gone (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Roy Glauber
What is Quantum Optics? (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture F. Sherwood Rowland
Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Hamilton Smith
Building a Synthetic Bacterial Cell (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Johann Deisenhofer
Structural Studies on Cholesterol Transport (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture George Smoot
Mapping the Universe and Its History (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Nicolaas Bloembergen
50 Years of Lasers (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Robert Wilson
The Discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and its Role in Cosmology (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Carlo Rubbia
The Underground Physics: Neutrino and Dark Matter (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Arno Penzias
Energy Advances — What’s New; What’s Next: What’s Missing 09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Roger Tsien
Designing Molecules and Nanoparticles to Help See and Treat Disease 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture
The Heartbeat of Light 10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Robert Horvitz
Programmed Cell Death in Development and Disease 11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Martin Chalfie
Adventures in Nontranslational Research 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Brian Josephson
Life, Extended Mind, and Fundamental Physics (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Leland Hartwell
Your Grand Challenge: Developing a Sustainable World (Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Robert Huber
Basic Science and Co-entrepreneurship, my Experience (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Werner Arber
Genetic and Cultural Impacts on the Course of Biological Evolution (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Sir Harold Kroto
The Revolutionary Impact of the GOOYouWiki World (GYWW) on Education and Student Success (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Walter Kohn
Can Math and Optical Physics help people with Macular Degeneration of the Eye? (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Avram Hershko
Roles of Protein Degradation in Health and Disease (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Edmond Fischer
The Origin of Reversible Protein Phosphorylation (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Ryoji Noyori
Molecular Catalysis for Green Chemistry (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture R. Timothy (Tim) Hunt
Getting In and Out of Mitosis (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Erwin Neher
Biophysics of Short-term Synaptic Plasticity (Lecture + Discussion) 09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Aaron Ciechanover
Why our Proteins Have to Die so We Shall Live 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Gerardus 't Hooft
The Big Challenges 10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Sir Martin J. Evans
Mice, Men and Medicine 11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Oliver Smithies
Chance, Opportunity and Planning in Science 11:30 - 12:00 Lecture David Gross
Frontiers of Physics 12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Kurt Wüthrich
Structural Genomics and the Expanding Universe of Protein Sequences 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Ivar Giaever
From Biology to Physics (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Ferid Murad
Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP and Application to Drug Development (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Richard Ernst
Let Us Develop Concepts for a Beneficial Global Future! (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Robert Richardson
The Looming World Shortage of Helium (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Mario Molina
Climate Change and Sustainable Development (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Gerhard Ertl
From Disorder to Order (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Hartmut Michel
Oxygen Reduction and Water Formation in Biology - Enzymes, Structures, Mechanisms (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Peter 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 Lecture Yuan Lee
Dynamics of Chemical Reactions and Photochemical Processes (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Martinus Veltman
The Development of Particle Physics (Lecture + Discussion) 16:15 - 17:30 Lecture Rudolph Marcus
Experimental surprises and their solution in theory (Lecture + Discussion) 09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Jean-Marie Lehn
Perspectives in Chemistry: Towards Adaptive Chemistry 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture James Cronin
Cosmic Rays: the Most Energetic Particles in the Universe 10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Sir John Walker
How Energy is Converted in Biology 11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Albert Fert
The World of Spintronics: Electrons, Spins, Computers and Telephones 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Peter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels (Lecture + Discussion) 14:30 - 15:45 Lecture Christian de Duve
Natural Selection and the Future of Life (Lecture + Discussion)