Annual-Report-2024 - Flipbook - Page 108
Lindau Matinee
A Traditional Format
Going on Tour
As per tradition, our year began with the Lindau Matinee – an event that is highly
popular with Lindau’s citizens. Council members and Lindau Alumni expounded on the
research recently awarded with the Nobel Prize. On the day before and for the
first time, the Matinee format had also been hosted by Technical University Munich.
Lindau’s inhabitants need to act fast once registration
opens for the Lindau Matinee – the available places for this
Sunday morning event are always filled quickly. Even in
busy Munich, the announcement of the Lindau Matinee
was met with great interest. Four experts for the respective
discipline presented the Nobel Prizes awarded in December.
The lectures in German language about the 2023 awards
were followed by a reception to invite all guests to exchange their thoughts about science and enjoy each
other’s company in the foyer of the Inselhalle. Once
again, we were grateful to Hendrik Groth, Editor-at-Large,
Schwäbische Zeitung, for moderating the programme.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Aleksey Yekimov
for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:
Karolin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their
discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications
that enabled the development of effective mRNA
vaccines against COVID-19
Explanation by Heiner Linke, Lindau’s Vice President of
the Council and Co-Chairperson for Physics – Member of
the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Royal Academy of
Sciences, Professor of Nanophysics at Lund University,
Sweden, and TUM Alumnus
106 | Reaching out to Society
Presentation by Andreas Linder, Lindau Alumnus 2015,
Assistant Physician, Medical Clinic II, Clinic of the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Gene Center
Munich
