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  • My visit to Nerd Heaven – Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

My visit to Nerd Heaven – Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting


For five years as a PhD student, I walked past the photos of Nobel Laureates like Mario José Molina and Kurt Wüthrich, a Nobel Laureate affiliated with ETH Zurich, that hang in a hallway of the Latimer building where I worked at UC Berkeley. Laureates like Molina and Richard Schrock are my idols, my mentors in Chemistry. Schrock inspired my passion for academia. Meeting them, along with Kurt Wüthrich last week, was not only a pleasure and an honour, but the greatness of their achievements still inspires me.
The 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting was like “Nerd Heaven” for me. This year it was dedicated to Chemistry and hosted 30 Nobel Laureates on the island of Lindau on Lake Constance. There I met up with 420 of the next generation of leading scientists: undergraduates, PhD students, and post-doctoral researchers from around the world. Among those I met, were 4 other Young Scientists from ETH Zurich - watch our Facebook live video with Brian Malow, Science Comedian. During my week at Lindau, I also had the honor to present my research on nitrous oxide activation in poster sessions and served as a panellist in a discussion about Science Careers.
Thomas Gianetti, ETH Zurich Young Scientist and postdoctoral researcher in inorganic chemistry at the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Thomas Gianetti and Kurt Wüthrich, ETH Zurich, 2002 Nobel prize in chemistry
Richard R. Schrock 2005 Nobel prize in chemistry and Thomas Gianetti
Thomas Gianetti and Mario J. Molina, 1995 Nobel prize for chemistry
Thomas Gianetti and Ei-ichi Negishi, 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry
Thomas Gianetti holding Klaus von Klitzing's Nobel prize medal
Klaus von Klitzing's Nobel prize medal
ETH Zurich Young Scientists Cornelius Gropp, Philipp Probst, Nina Hentzen, Thomas Gianetti, and Thomas Edwardson interviewing with Science Comedian Brian Malow
Presenting my research on nitrous oxide activation.
By Thomas Gianetti

Thomas Gianetti is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich's Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry.
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