Collec­tor's Pieces

In April 1963, the first episode of the now le­gen­da­ry German te­le­vi­si­on series called “Zur Person” aired for the first time. On October 28, 1964, Günter Gaus in­ter­view­ed Hannah Arendt. Looking back, he would say about this en­coun­ter that it was the best in­ter­view he had ever con­duc­ted.

Ben­ja­min List re­cei­ved the Nobel Prize in Che­mi­stry in 2021. The en­thu­si­asm for his spe­cia­list field - ca­ta­ly­sis re­se­arch - is not only pal­p­a­ble in the lecture hall at TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­ty.

The de­ve­lop­men­tal bio­lo­gist and Nobel Prize winner is both a pioneer and a role model. In her lecture, she reviews the stages of her own re­se­arch ac­tivi­ties, which reflect the almost uni­ver­sal themes of modern ge­ne­tics.

“The Meaning of Beauty in Exact Natural Science” is the title of a lecture de­li­ve­r­ed by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970 on the con­nec­tion between sci­en­ti­fic thought and in­tui­ti­ve ae­s­the­tic ex­pe­ri­ence.

So­cio­lo­gist Armin Nassehi gave a lecture at Bie­le­feld Uni­ver­si­ty on De­cem­ber 19, 2022, en­t­it­led "Making De­cisi­ons under Un­cer­tain­ty." The lecture shows that so­cio­lo­gy is not only abs­tract, but can be ap­proa­ched in an in­tel­lec­tual­ly sti­mu­la­ting and en­ter­tai­ning way.

In his lecture on the de­ve­lop­ment of glo­ba­li­za­ti­on, Paul Krugman, a Nobel lau­rea­te and pro­fes­sor of eco­no­mics, shows how glo­ba­li­za­ti­on has led not only to greater pro­spe­ri­ty and fairer income dis­tri­bu­ti­on, but also to social ten­si­ons and divides.