Indian students' team returns from the 60th meeting of Nobel Laureates and students meet in Germany

Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Prithviraj Chavan congratulated the team of 20 young Indian scientists/students who were sent to Germany to represent India at the 60th meeting of Nobel Laureates and students at Lindau from June 28 - July 2.

This was the tenth time that India had deputed a team of  young scientists. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) had joined this programme  way back in 2001 for participation of young Indian Scientists in the annual meetings of Nobel Laureates and students in Lindau.

The meeting is jointly sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology, German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Foundation for the Meeting of Nobel Laureates & Students in Lindau, Germany.

Since 1951, such meetings of Nobel Laureates with students and young researchers in science disciplines of Chemistry, Physics, Physiology and Medicine have been organized in Lindau, Germany at intervals of every three years.

These meetings usually last for one week, always at the end of June or the beginning of July and are aimed at open and informal contact between Laureates and young researchers through round table discussions, lectures and personal small group interactions.

This year's meeting involved participation by 60 Nobel Laureates and about 650 young scientists from around the world.

The participants in the team were short-listed by a selection committee from a large number of applications received from all over India against an open advertisement released by the DST.

In the week after the Lindau meetings, the Indian team also visited several premier German institutions like Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Leipzig; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig; Technical University of Dresden; Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids; Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden; University of Bonn, Life & Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES); Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI).etc to name a few of them