Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science at the Göttinger Literaturherbst
The current program
Since 2007, our institute, together with the other three local Max Planck Institutes, the Göttinger Literaturherbst and the Lower Saxony State and University Library, has been organizing the lecture series Science at the Göttinger Literaturherbst.
In exciting, generally understandable lectures, renowned scientists and science journalists present their latest research findings and books and discuss current topics. The event will take place live in the Paulinerkirche and will also be streamed. The on-air ticket is valid for all lectures of the Göttinger Literaturherbst.
Speaker 2026: Maike Luhmann, Yossi Yovel, Philipp Hübl, Katharina Zweig, Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey, Günther Hasinger, Dirk Brockmann, Julia Jäkel, Bernhard Pörksen and Tim Palmer (f.l.)
Speaker 2026: Maike Luhmann, Yossi Yovel, Philipp Hübl, Katharina Zweig, Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey, Günther Hasinger, Dirk Brockmann, Julia Jäkel, Bernhard Pörksen and Tim Palmer (f.l.)
Please note: Unfortunately, the evening with Julia Jäkel and Patrick Cramer on October 9 was cancelled. We are trying to arrange an alternative date.
Science Communication Medal
Since 2014, the Science Communication Medal has been awarded annually to a scientist who has made a special effort to present scientific research results to a broad public in an understandable manner.
All lectures take place at the Paulinerkirche in Göttingen.
Kai Michel • Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe • Sabine Engel • Johanna M. Lukate • Mojib Latif • Jason Steffen • Julian Nida-Rümelin • Hans-Hennig von Grünberg • Katalin Karikó • Kathleen Wermke • Alena Buyx
Volker und Cornelia Quaschning • Gerd Gigerenzer • Armin Falk • Bill Hansson • Özlem Türeci, Uğur Şahin & Joe Miller • Dave Goulson • Antje Boetius • Steffen Mau
Martin Wikelski • Thorsten Dambeck • Johannes Krause • Bruce Allen • Frank Vorpahl • Katja Liebal • Julia Fischer • Sabine Hossenfelder • Eva Illouz • Johannes Frasnelli
Lisa Kaltenegger • Bert Hölldobler • Allan Guggenbühl • Metin Tolan • Hans Joachim Schellnhuber • Ian Goldin • Armin Nassehi • Helen Pearson • Michael Shermer
Kurt Bayertz • Ludolf Schultz • Ben Moore • André Aleman • Günter M. Ziegler • Thomas de Padova • John Whitfield • Martin Hellwig • Robert L. Trivers • Gerd Gigerenzer
Frances Ashcroft • Julia Fischer • Ute Frevert • Michael Gazzaniga • Brian Greene • Heinz Hilbrecht • Josef Honerkamp • Thomas Meinertz • Günther Ortmann • Jonathan Steinberg
Katerina Harvati • Gian Domenico Borasio • Thomas Pogge • Paul Collier • Joseph H. Reichholf • Gerhard Roth • Metin Tolan • Christian Hesse • Michael Hagner • Stefan Rahmstorf
Ilaria Capua • Thomas Metzinger • Steven Pinker • Borwin Bandelow • John L. Heilbron • Hans-Peter Beck-Bornholdt • Sebastian Schütze • William Tecuseh Fitch • Michael Welland • Johannes W. Grüntzig
Colin Renfrew • Florian Holsboer • Martin J. Sherwin • Norbert Bolz • Christoph Luitpold Frommel • Giacomo Rizzolatti • Detlef Ganten • Peter J. Bowler • Oussama Khatib (Stanford) und Bruno Siciliano (Neapel) • Lee Smolin
Roger Penrose • Christopher Clark • Daniel C. Dennett • Ansgar Beckermann • Hans Belting • Hans-Jörg Rheinberger • John L. Heilbron • Wolf Singer • John Romer • Gerd Gigerenzer
Rudolf Jaenisch • Sherwin B. Nuland • Richard Dawkins • Thomas Ditzinger • Jürgen Tautz • Peter Burke • Manfred Spitzer • Peter Atkins • Martin Kemp • Konrad Paul Liessmann