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Nobel Ideas

Global Ideas asked a group of Nobel prize winners to share their views on energy and climate issues. The result? Nobel Ideas.

Every year in June, the world's Nobel prize winners come together for a scientific conference in the German town of Lindau. Global Ideas joins them and asks some of the laureates to share their views on important energy and climate issues.

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Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

John Mather, Nobel Prize in Physics

Robert Laughlin, Nobel Prize in Physics

Hartmut Michel, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Mario Molina, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize in Physics

Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Erwin Neher, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Oliver Smithies, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Bert Sakmann, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Date 12.02.2013
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