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It’s been a worryingly long time since I last blogged properly (I can’t really count uploading Reactions interviews, guest blog posts, or Stu’s Twitter updates as proper posts!), but here I am again. Read more
It’s been a worryingly long time since I last blogged properly (I can’t really count uploading Reactions interviews, guest blog posts, or Stu’s Twitter updates as proper posts!), but here I am again. Read more
Ian Fleming is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, and worked on a range of topics in the general area of synthetic organic chemistry. He is best known as a pioneer in applying organosilicon chemistry to control the regio- and stereo-chemistry of a variety of organic reactions. Read more
Here are the highlights from yesterday’s tweets from the 2009 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting … Read more
Tomorrow the Lindau Meeting shifts to another island in Lake Constance. Early in the morning, delegates will climb aboard a boat and be ferried across the lake to the island of Mainau – a trip taking more than a couple of hours. Here we will be treated to a panel discussion about ‘Global Warming and Sustainability’ with quite a distinguished line-up. As well as Laureates Molina and Schrock, the panel also includes Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – which won the Peace Prize in 2007. Other participants include the author Bjorn Lomborg, and Professors William Moomaw and Thomas Stocker. Read more
Here are the highlights from yesterday’s tweets from the 2009 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting … Read more
Wednesday morning at the Lindau meeting saw a full slate of talks from half-a-dozen Chemistry Laureates: Marcus (1992), Wüthrich (2002), Kroto (1996), Huber (1988), Kohn (1998), Agre (2003) – and some of the highlights are covered below… … Read more
Tuesday morning at Lindau saw three talks from Laureates – Aaron Ciechanover (Chemistry 2004), Mario Molina (Chemistry 1995), and Erwin Neher (Physiology or Medicine 1991). Unfortunately I was called away just at the start of the first talk to shuttle our van around Lindau and only made it back half-way through Molina’s talk. Jason – one of my colleagues here – had it even worse, however, as he headed over to Zurich (almost a 300-km round trip!) to pick up essential equipment for the film crew. Read more
Here are the highlights from yesterday’s tweets from the 2009 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting … Read more
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