48th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

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Monday, 29 June 1998

10:50 - 11:30 Lecture Paul Crutzen
The Important Role of the Tropics in the Self-Cleaning Capacity of the Atmosphere
11:30 - 12:10 Lecture F. Sherwood Rowland
Trace Gas Chemistry in the Cities and Over the Oceans
15:00 - 15:40 Lecture Robert Curl Jr.
The Dawn of the Fullerenes: A Research Adventure
15:40 - 16:10 Lecture Sir Harold Kroto
C60-Buckminsterfullerene: Not just a Pretty Molecule

Tuesday, 30 June 1998

09:00 - 09:40 Lecture William Lipscomb
Regulation in Yeast Chorismate Mutase, a Simple Allosteric Enzyme
09:40 - 10:40 Lecture Robert Huber
Structure Analysis of Large Electronmicroscopy and X-ray Crystallography
10:40 - 11:20 Lecture Herbert Brown
A General Asymmetric Synthesis Based on Chiral Organoboranes
11:20 - 12:00 Lecture George Olah
Mitigating Global Warming Through Chemistry: Recycling Carbon Dioxide into Useful Fuels and Hydrocarbon Products
16:00 - 17:00 Lecture Paul Boyer
What Laureates Might Want to Know About the 1997 Chemistry Prize

Wednesday, 1 July 1998

09:00 - 09:40 Lecture Jerome Karle
Structural Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics
09:40 - 10:40 Lecture Rudolf Mößbauer
Gamma Resonance Spectroscopy
10:40 - 11:20 Lecture Hartmut Michel
From Photosynthesis to Respiration: Structure and Function of Energy Transforming Membrane Protein Complexes
11:20 - 12:00 Lecture Johann Deisenhofer
Structure and Function of the Cytochrome bc1-Complex from Bovine Heart

Thursday, 2 July 1998

09:00 - 09:40 Lecture Rudolph Marcus
Experiment and its Stimulation of Theories of Chemical Reaction Rates and Related Phenomena
09:40 - 10:40 Lecture John Polanyi
Aligning Molecules and Zapping them with Lasers: How and why
10:40 - 11:20 Lecture Michael Smith
First Lessons from the Human Genome Project
11:20 - 12:00 Lecture Mario Molina
Environmental Challenges for the 21st Century

Friday, 3 July 1998

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