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Nobel LaureatesThe Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and their vision can only be turned into reality thanks to the active support of Nobel Laureates. Through their numerous interactions with young researchers and their lectures and seminars at Lindau, these outstanding scientists make these unique meetings possible. 200 Nobel Laureates demonstrate their support for the Lindau Meetings through their membership of the Founders Assembly of the Foundation.
Laureates from the respective fields of science are invited to the Lindau Meetings for physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and the economic sciences. Since 1951, more than 300 Laureates have attended at least one of the Lindau Meetings. In recent years, these have included a growing number of Laureates who received the coveted award in Stockholm just the previous year.
Every year, between 15 and 25 Nobel Laureates spend a week in the Lake Constance area meeting young international scientists of tomorrow. They treasure the informal atmosphere, which not only enables, but indeed encourages intense exchange of thoughts and ideas. The special character of the Lindau Meetings is shaped by the fact that the Nobel Laureates can freely choose the topics of their lectures which range from retrospective to current cutting-edge, prospective to blue-sky. The Laureates hold these lectures in the mornings during the conference. The afternoons are reserved for discussions between themselves and the young scientists. During other events on the social programme and on the joint trip to the Isle of Mainau, the Laureates willingly talk about their own work and current scientific topics.
The Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance, in association with the Klaus Tschira Foundation GmbH, sponsors the Berlin-based photographer Peter Badge’s portraits of all the Nobel Laureates. The "Laureates’ Gallery" on this website – as well as featuring the unusual photographs taken by Peter Badge – also presents detailed information about the lives and work of individual Laureates. Each profile depicts a “Nobel Life Path”, which originated from an idea by the Nobel Laureate, Arno Penzias (Physics 1978). The lifelines of all the Laureates create the so-called "Penzias` Painting".
MORE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE: More than 200 Nobel Laureates are member of the Founders´Assembly of the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance. See the complete list. Nobel Laureate Arno Penzias contributed to this website with his idea of the "Nobel Life Paths". Read the introduction written by him. Feedback of Nobel Laureates helps the organizers to improve the Lindau Meetings constantly. The Annual Reports make this feedback - together with results from a survey among all participants - public. Read these reports on this website.
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