Nobel laureates meet students

Once a year, Nobel Laureates meet in the historical town of Lindau in Lake Constance to present lectures and discuss with graduate students. It is a unique, traditional meeting brought into being by the late Count Lennart Bernadotte in 1951 after the turmoil of World War II, with a view to bringing German university trainees back into the international community of scientific research. The book presents brief reports on more than 130 lectures and 15 panel discussions held by altogether a hundred individual Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, or Medicine, which they presented on scientific topics of their own choice during the ten Lindau Meetings from 1996 to 2005. The reports were taken down in writing by an experienced observer of scientific meetings, interested in grasping the messages communicated by the Laureates. In the second part of the book, the author briefly describes how every Laureate has contributed through his discovery or pioneering studies to the advancement of knowledge in prominent areas of current scientific research. This review sets out the context of the scientific topics chosen by the Laureates for their lectures.