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Honour for Director of the Nobel Foundation: Countess Sonja Bernadotte Awards Lennart-Bernadotte-Medaille to Michael Sohlman



    Countess Sonja Bernadotte, President of the Council for the Lindau
    Nobel Laureate Meetings, is to present the Lennart-Bernadotte-Medaille
    to Michael Sohlman. The director of the Nobel Foundation is being
    honoured for his services to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. The
    award ceremony will be taking place on July 1st, 2007 in Lindau during
    the opening ceremony of the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates.

    "Over the past years, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings have
    developed into a platform for the dialogue between Nobel Laureates and
    young scientists of tomorrow from all over the world. As director of
    the Nobel Foundation, Michael Sohlman has always benevolently
    accompanied the work of the Council. The awarding of the
    Lennart-Bernadotte-Medaille is an expression of our thanks for this
    mutual confidence," says Countess Sonja Bernadotte.

    The Lennart-Bernadotte-Medaille is named after the spiritus rector
    of the Nobel Laureate Meetings, Count Lennart Bernadotte (1909-2004).
    It has been awarded since 2002. Holders include the former Mayor of
    Lindau and, for many years, vice-president of the Council, Josef
    Steurer, the Nobel Laureates Professor Ernst Otto Fischer and
    Professor Willis Eugene Lamb, as well as Baron Stig Ramel, Michael
    Sohlman's predecessor as director of the Nobel Foundation.

    The annual Meetings of Nobel Laureates in Lindau are organised by
    the Council for the Meetings of Nobel Laureates in Lindau under the
    presidency of Countess Sonja Bernadotte (Isle of Mainau). The
    Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance, whose
    Founders' Assembly includes 169 Nobel Laureates, supports the
    Meetings. The natural-scientific Meetings of Nobel Laureates in
    Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and in Physics have been held since
    1951. Since 2004, the holders of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic
    Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, have also held biannual meetings
    on Lake Constance.