Day 1 addresses the history of the Nobel Prize, the most prestigious international award in our time. It is used for ranking universities and emphasizing the reputation of whole nations. This makes it the ideal example for investigating the mechanisms of scientific recognition: Why does one get a Nobel Prize - or not? What does it mean for a scientist’s career to get a Nobel Prize? How did the public perception of Nobel laureates evolve in the course of time?
Key-note lecture “Female Faculty: Why so few and why care?” by Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, biophysical chemist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of the Sciences
Program day 1 - 29 September (Nobel) Prize Studies in the Sciences from a Historical Perspective
9.30-10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00-10.15 Opening remarks
10.15-11.15 Key-note Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Female Faculty: Why so few and why care?
11.15 - 11.30 Coffeebreak
11.30-13.00 Prize studies in history of science: the case of Dutch Nobel Prizes
- Jelmer Heeren, Moving away from the scientist as heroic genius: twentieth-century historiography of science through the eyes of Reijer Hooykaas
- Rob van den Berg, The first vitamin Nobel: A hotly contested award
- Annelies Noordhof-Hoorn, Every hero needs a sidekick: Frits Zernike and the Nobel Prize in Physics of 1953
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Heroes and Nobel Prizes
- Christiaan Engberts, Scientific Giant or Civic Hero
- Ad Maas, Louise Lagarde, Nobel Artefacts in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
- Daniela Angetter-Pfeiffer: Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch -the Nobel Prize winners with Nicolaas Tinbergen in 1973 - what unites, what divides them?
15.30-15.45 Coffee break
15.45-16.15 Recent trends in Nobel Prizes
- Jeff Seeman and Guillermo Restrepo, Recent Studies on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
16.15-17.00 Heroes-of-science-museum-tour by Hilbrand Wouters
17.00-18.00 Drinks
