Nobel Laureates meet Students. Lindau 1996-2005

Wolfgang Hebel was born in Duisburg, Germany, in 1934. He is married to Eleonore Schilling, and they have two children and four grandchildren. Following his studies of thermodynamics and nuclear engineering at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, he worked with the LURGI Companies in Frankfurt/Main from 1959-1963. Joining EURATOM in 1963, he was delegated to the Nuclear Research Centre (CEN-SCK) at Mol, Belgium, for 17 years. From 1981-1996, he was scientific coordinator with the Research Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels, first, in charge of nuclear waste management, and later, for ten years, responsible for the preparation of new EU research initiatives in fundamental research. Following his retirement in 1996, he lives in Tervuren near Brussels. Wolfgang Hebel has published more than 30 scientific reports and studies, initially on nuclear research, and later on specific trends in fundamental research, in particular regarding molecular biology and the molecular processes of life. Most recently, for more than twenty years, he has attended numerous advanced research meetings in the European region, including the yearly Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Germany.