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.