2021 Solvay Public Lectures & Solvay Awards

The Solvay Institutes promote the popularization of science through the organization of the annual "Solvay Public Lectures" devoted to today's big scientific challenges.

Solvay Institutes

What is Life?
Professor Paul Nurse (Francis Crick Institute, London) | 2001 Nobel Laureate in Medicine

Why we cannot make artificial life in a laboratory?
Professor Bert Meijer (TU Eindhoven) | 2001 Spinoza Award

How personalised is your immune repertoire?
Professor Aleksandra Walczak (ENS, Paris) | 2016 Bronze Medal of the CNRS

Steps towards complex matter: chemistry!
Professor Jean-Marie Lehn (USIAS, Strasbourg) | 1987 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

During the event, a short Solvay Awards Ceremony will take place