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    The world has failed to deliver on many of the promises it made 20 years ago at the Earth summit in Brazil.

    • Jeff Tollefson
    •  & Natasha Gilbert

  • Feature |

    Posters are a chance to show off work and to network with colleagues, but only if the design is easy on the eye.

    • Kendall Powell

  • News Q&A |

    Discussions over H5N1 studies must be international and transparent, says Anthony Fauci.

    • Declan Butler

  • Editorial |

    The Durban meeting shows that climate policy and climate science inhabit parallel worlds.

  • News |

    Marathon talks enable Europe to break deadlock over global-warming deal with major greenhouse-gas emitters.

    • Jeff Tollefson

  • Outlook |

    In Lindau, a colloquy between a Nobel laureate and three students encouraged the young researchers to grapple with some of the biggest challenges in drug development.

    • Kat McGowan

  • Outlook |

    Chemist at the University of Strasbourg in France. Shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development and use of molecules that recognize and interact with each other. Coined 'supramolecular chemistry', it is an area of chemistry that exploits non-covalent interactions. Born in 1939 in Rosheim in France, Lehn was the son of a baker who later became the city's organist. Music is Lehn's main passion other than science.

    • Jean-Marie Lehn

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    Virologist at German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg. Joint winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in causing cervical cancer. zur Hausen was born in 1936 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer in Germany, an area that was heavily bombed during the Second World War.

    • Harald zur Hausen

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    Biophysicist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Shared 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for knowledge of the structure and function of the ribosome — the intracellular machine that builds proteins from instructions carried by RNA. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1940. The oldest of five children, Steitz has admitted to being an average student in high school, until motivated to compete against his youngest brother who was getting better grades. Steitz was a keen musician and chorister, and considered a career in music before finally choosing to pursue science.

    • Thomas Arthur Steitz

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    Biochemist at Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology in Haifa. Shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the ubiquitin system, which mediates protein degradation in all plant and animal cells by destroying proteins that are denatured, misfolded or no longer needed. Family moved from Poland in the 1920s, and he was born in Haifa in 1947. The following year the state of Israel was established.

    • Aaron Ciechanover

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    X-ray crystallographer currently at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. She won a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the structure and function of the ribosome. Yonath was born in 1939 in Jerusalem to a poor family. Her father died when she was 11 years old, and Yonath helped support her mother and younger sister. Yonath was the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel prize and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    • Ada Etil Yonath

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    Biochemist at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, he shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide acts as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system, prompting blood vessels to relax. Murad was born in Whiting, Indiana in 1936. His American mother was only 17 years old when she eloped with his father, an Albanian immigrant. His parents ran a restaurant, where he and his two brothers worked. Murad used to memorize customers' orders and mentally tally their bills, which he believed trained his memory and maths skills.

    • Ferid Murad

  • Editorial |

    The Heartland Institute's climate conference reveals the motives of global-warming sceptics.

  • News |

    Field aims to enlist techniques from molecular biology to attack fundamental challenges.

    • Erika Check Hayden

  • Editorial |

    Europe's science meeting is getting bigger and better. Now's the time to get involved for 2012.

  • Editorial |

    Graphene is not a miracle material, just a very promising one. It will take restraint and sustained interest to deliver its potential.

  • World View |

    Next week's climate meeting in Mexico should avoid talk of more ambitious targets, says Yvo de Boer. First, we need people to believe in green growth.

    • Yvo de Boer

  • News |

    With nations in gridlock over emissions, UN negotiators are concentrating on side deals to revive an ailing process.

    • Jeff Tollefson

  • Outlook |

    The goals of science have not changed since the early days of the Lindau meeting, yet the way they are pursued has.

    • Ned Stafford

  • Outlook |

    The annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings have evolved over the years, reflecting changes in both science and society.

    • John Galbraith Simmons

  • Outlook |

    International meetings and exchanges are creating a universal, globe-spanning culture of science with widespread ramifications.

    • Christopher Mims

  • Outlook |

    What happens when the spotlight shines on the young scientists?

    • Akshat Rathi

  • Editorial |

    General science meetings are good opportunities for researchers to broaden their horizons.

  • Column |

    Scientists and the media are trapped in a cosy relationship that benefits neither. They should challenge each other more, says Colin Macilwain.

    • Colin Macilwain

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