The 61st Annual Lindau Meeting: Inspiration for Science's Next Generation

Two young scientists met with a Nobel laureate at the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer in Germany to discuss career choices

Hans Rosling, professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute, explains how a regulated market can encourage pharma companies to produce drugs for the world's poor. Steve Mirsky reports

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, Edmond Fischer noted that researchers used to seek factors behind known phenomena, a situation often reversed today. Steve Mirsky reports

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, Bill Gates discussed the challenges of research on diseases common in developing countries in a market-driven biomedical research environment. Steve Mirsky reports

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, 1996 laureate Harold Kroto told the assembled students that science as a way of evaluating what is true is, for him, its most important quality. Steve Mirsky reports

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, 2007 Nobelist Oliver Smithies told the assembled students about what he learned from his thesis project, which was never once cited. Steve Mirsky reports