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A Week Overflowing With Physics
Agora Talks: Fora for Questions
The Agora Talks feature one or two Nobel Laureates and a moderator, who join to
discuss a topic of the Laureates’ choosing. Participants are given the opportunity to ask
questions in an open forum setting.
J. Georg Bednorz, Eric Betzig
Opportunities and Challenges for the Energy Transition
Steven Chu, Stefan W. Hell
Single Molecule Methods and a Physics Understanding
of Biology | MINFLUX: A New Physical Principle To
Resolve Position and Movements of (Bio)Molecules
Down to Angströms
Johann Deisenhofer, Hartmut Michel
The Future of Structural Biology:
Artificial Intelligence and in Situ Structures
F. Duncan M. Haldane, J. Michael Kosterlitz
Topology, Matter, and Quantum Information
Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland
Quantum Science With Trapped Ions and Rydberg Atoms
Gerardus 't Hooft
The Beauty of Mathematics in Science
Brian D. Josephson
Taking Into Account Organised Complexity Could
Initiate a New Era in Physics
Takaaki Kajita
Experiments to Measure Neutrino Properties
Klaus von Klitzing
The Quantum Hall Effect and Our New SI Units
John C. Mather, Brian P. Schmidt
The Greatest Challenges in Cosmology,
and How They Could Be Resolved
W.E. Moerner
Adventures With Single Molecules and SARS-CoV-2
Saul Perlmutter
The Other Way That Science Can Save the World:
Scientific Thinking for All
William D. Phillips
The Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System
Dan Shechtman
The Science and Aesthetics of Soap Bubbles
George F. Smoot
Cosmology Today and Tomorrow
Donna Strickland, Gérard A. Mourou
Extreme Light Laser and Its Societal Applications
Kurt Wüthrich
My Way to NMR and to a Nobel Prize
Ada E. Yonath
Physics for Underlying the Chemistry of Medical Biology
The Agora Talks were moderated by
Sibylle Anderl, DIE ZEIT, Germany
Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Klaus Blaum, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Germany
Peter Brzezinski, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
Günther Dissertori, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology,
Germany
Anne L’Huillier, Lund University, Sweden
Heiner Linke, Lund University, Sweden
Wolfgang Lubitz, Max Planck Institute for Chemical
Energy Conversion, Germany
Jürgen Mlynek, Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, Germany
Lene Oddershede, Novo Nordisk Fonden, Denmark
Achim Rosch, University of Cologne, Germany
Adam Smith, Nobel Prize Outreach, Sweden
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Chalmers University of
Technology, Sweden
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