Mainau Declaration

The Mainau Declaration refers to any one of three socio-political appeals by Nobel laureates who participated in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, the annual gathering with young scientists at the German town of Lindau. The name denotes that these declarations were presented on Mainau Island in Lake Constance, the traditional venue of the last day of the one-week meeting.

Mainau Declaration 1955 The first Mainau Declaration was an appeal against the use of nuclear weapons. Initiated and drafted by German nuclear scientists Otto Hahn and Max Born, it was circulated at the 5th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (11–15 July 1955) and presented on Mainau Island on 15 July 1955. The declaration was initially signed by 18 Nobel laureates. Within a year, the number of supporters rose to 52 Nobel laureates.

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Signatories The initial 18 signatories were: Kurt Alder Max Born Adolf Butenandt Arthur H. Compton Gerhard Domagk Hans von Euler-Chelpin Otto Hahn Werner Heisenberg George Hevesy Richard Kuhn Fritz Lipmann Hermann Joseph Muller Paul Hermann Müller Leopold Ruzicka Frederick Soddy Wendell M. Stanley Hermann Staudinger Hideki Yukawa

Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change

The Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change was presented on Mainau Island, Germany, on the occasion of the last day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Friday 3 July 2015. It is an urgent warning of the consequences of climate change and was initially signed by 36 Nobel laureates. In the months thereafter, 35 additional laureates joined the group of supporters of the declaration. As of February 2016, a total of 76 Nobel laureates endorse the Mainau Declaration 2015.

The text of the declaration states that although more data needs to be analysed and further research has to be done, the climate report by the IPCC still represents the most reliable scientific assessment on anthropogenic climate change, and that it should therefore be used as a foundation upon which policymakers should discuss actions to oppose the global threat of climate change.

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Signatories and supporters

The following Nobel laureates have thus far signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 or expressed their full support after its presentation. 36 Nobel laureates (left column) signed the declaration on 3 July 2015 on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting; 40 agreed later on for their names to be listed as signatories. Initial signatoriesAdditional supportersPeter AgreHiroshi AmanoJ.M. BishopDavid BaltimoreElizabeth BlackburnAaron CiechanoverMartin ChalfieElias CoreySteven ChuRobert CurlClaude Cohen-TannoudjiJohann DeisenhoferJames W. CroninSheldon GlashowPeter DohertyRobert GrubbsGerhard ErtlLeland HartwellEdmond FischerDudley HerschbachWalter GilbertRoald HoffmannRoy GlauberWolfgang KetterleDavid GrossWalter KohnJohn L. HallYuan T. LeeSerge HarocheMichael LevittStefan HellJohn MatherJules H. HoffmannArthur B. McDonaldKlaus von KlitzingEdvard MoserHarold KrotoMay-Britt MoserWilliam MoernerRyoji NoyoriFerid MuradPaul NurseEi-ichi NegishiJohn O'KeefeSaul PerlmutterDouglas OsheroffWilliam PhillipsArno PenziasRichard RobertsCarlo RubbiaKailash SatyarthiOliver SmithiesBrian SchmidtJack SteinbergerHamilton O. SmithThomas SteitzGeorge SmootHorst StörmerJack SzostakThomas SüdhofRoger Y. TsienJohn SulstonHarold VarmusJoseph H. TaylorJ. Robin WarrenCarl WiemanArieh WarshelDavid WinelandTorsten WieselRobert Wilson

Mainau Declaration 2024 The third Mainau declaration, titled Mainau Declaration 2024 on Nuclear Weapons was announced and signed on July 5, 2024 at the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting on Mainau Island. The document was read in full by physics laureate David Gross and then signed in front of the audience of young scientists by all 22 present Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry. The full document has signatures from 30 laureates in physics and chemistry.

Similarly to the Mainau Declaration 2015, the following Nobel laureates (left column) have signed the Mainau Declaration 2024 on the day of its announcement, while other laureates have later agreed to add their names to the list of signatories (right column): Initial signatories Additional supporters (as of 26 September 2024) Alain Aspect Peter Agre J. Georg Bednorz Harvey J. Alter Steven Chu Werner Arber Johann Deisenhofer Robert J. Aumann Reinhard Genzel Barry C. Barish Walter Gilbert Françoise Barré-Sinoussi David J. Gross Elizabeth H. Blackburn F. Duncan M. Haldane Mario R. Capecchi Theodor W. Hänsch Thomas R. Cech Serge Haroche Martin Chalfie Stefan W. Hell Emmanuelle Charpentier Richard Henderson Elias J. Corey Gerardus ’t Hooft Peter C. Doherty Brian D. Josephson Baron François Englert Takaaki Kajita Gerhard Ertl Klaus Klitzing Sir Martin J. Evans J. Michael Kosterlitz Albert Fert Anne L’Huillier Joachim Frank John C. Mather Jerome I. Friedman Hartmut Michel Sir Andre K. Geim W.E. Moerner Sheldon L. Glashow Saul Perlmutter Jeffrey C. Hall William D. Phillips Alan J. Heeger Didier Queloz Avram Hershko Brian P. Schmidt Jules A. Hoffmann Dan Shechtman Roald Hoffmann George F. Smoot Tim Hunt Donna Strickland Louis J. Ignarro David J. Wineland William G. Kaelin Jr. Kurt Wüthrich Katalin Karikó Tawakkol Karman Brian K. Kobilka Ferenc Krausz Finn E. Kydland Robert B. Laughlin Yuan Tseh Lee Jean-Marie Lehn Michael Levitt Tomas Lindahl Benjamin List Sir David W.C. MacMillan Eric S. Maskin Michel Mayor Arthur B. McDonald Daniel L. McFadden Morten Meldal Edvard I. Moser May-Britt Moser Erwin Neher Ryoji Noyori Sir Paul M. Nurse Giorgio Parisi Edmund S. Phelps Sir Christopher A. Pissarides Venki Ramakrishnan José Ramos-Horta Charles M. Rice Sir Richard J. Roberts Michael M. Rosbash Kailash Satyarthi Jean-Pierre Sauvage Randy W. Schekman Richard R. Schrock Phillip A. Sharp Vernon L. Smith Wole Soyinka Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Thomas C. Südhof Jack W. Szostak Sir John E. Walker Arieh Warshel M. Stanley Whittingham Torsten N. Wiesel Robert B. Wilson

Additionally, over 600 Lindau Alumni added their names in support of the Mainau Declaration 2024.

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