Thursday, October 25, 2012

The 62nd Annual Lindau Meeting: "Beyond the Classroom" [Video]

Nature Video presents five short films on this summer's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which brought early-career physicists together with Nobel Prize-winners


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The majority of Nobel prizewinners are men, including the two in this film: Harry Kroto and Dudley Herschbach. This gender imbalance worries the young researchers who join them at a German school to debate the state of science education and how science is perceived beyond the classroom. Kroto tells them about a creationist museum in the U.S., which brings up the issue of public trust in science. The young researchers wonder what role they can play.

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For more on the discussions at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2012, please see?Nature Outlook's?"Physics Masterclass" issue.

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