Special edition: Annual Assembly 2011

Content:

• Leopoldina Annual Assembly 2011 explored questions about life
• “There are plenty of topics on which policymakers need expert advice.” - In her speech, Chancellor Merkel underlined the importance of the Leopoldina. Jörg Hacker, President of the Leopoldina, and Reiner Haseloff, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, also spoke about the Academy’s role in the research sector in Germany and around the world
• At the Annual Assembly, the Leopoldina honoured outstanding researchers with awards and medals
• A host of different answers to the question of “What is life?” - The academic presentations covered a broad spectrum of topics and bridged the natural sciences, the life sciences and the humanities