40th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Monday, 2 July 1990

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

Tuesday, 3 July 1990

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

Wednesday, 4 July 1990

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Brian Josephson
consciousness in science
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Manfred Eigen
Virus quasi species, Pandora`s box
10:10 - 11:00 Lecture Werner Arber
Elements of the Microbial Evolution
11:00 - 11:35 Lecture Susumu Tonegawa
Genetic Strategies Used by the Immune System
11:35 - 12:10 Lecture Georges Köhler
Transgene Mice in Immunology

Thursday, 5 July 1990

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

Friday, 6 July 1990

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