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Steven Chu giving a scientific introduction to the Meeting’s key topics
Scientific Chairs Rainer Blatt (r) …
… and Heiner Linke (r) devised the Scientific Programme
Apart from these more concrete topics, Rainer Blatt
and Heiner Linke emphasized the significance of crossdisciplinary science. Linke described how the impact of
physics has always been palpable in all sciences and how
the “language barrier” between various disciplines has
been torn down during recent years, making interdisciplinary work increasingly natural. Blatt added that interdisciplinarity in its core “just means being open-minded”
and advised the Young Scientists to “listen to everything,
talk to everybody, listen to chemists, biologists, literally
to everybody, and just absorb what you can”.
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