Noble Nobel Faces

As the ship pulled out of port, a young man near me started humming the theme from Gilligan’s Island . I mentioned to him that the show would have been very different had the SS Minnow been carrying not a lone professor but–as our vessel was–a contingent of Nobel laureates. “Yeah,” he replied, “with everybody who’s here, we’d probably get off the island pretty quick.” This boat ride on Lake Constance, or the Bodensee as it is locally known, was part of the last day’s activities of the 61st annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany

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Noble Nobel Faces