An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories.What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in this English translation of the German book Fascination of Science, an indelible collection of portraits of and interviews with sixty pioneering scientists of the twenty-first century. Koelbl's approach is intimate and accessible, and her highly personal interviews with her subjects reveal the forces (as well as the personal quirks) that motivate the scientists' work; for example, one wakes up at 3 am because her mind is calm then, another says his best ideas come to him in the shower. These glimpses into the scientists' lives and thinking add untold texture in this up-to-the-minute survey of the activities and progress that are currently taking place in the broad field of the natural sciences.Koelbl's interview subjects include Nobel Prize winners Dan Shechtman, Frances Arnold, Carolyn Bertozzi, and cover scientific fields from astronomy, biochemistry, and quantum physics to stem-cell research and AI. Beautifully bringing together art, science, and the written word, Fascination of Science is an inspiring read that shows how creativity, obsession, persistence, and passion drive the pioneering researchers of our time.

8 Foreword by Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker9 Preface by Herlinde Koelbl Interviews10 Karl Deisseroth16 Peter Seeberger24 Stefan Hell30 Antje Boetius36 Thomas Sudhof42 David Avnir48 Alessio Figalli54 Jennifer Doudna60 Tom Rapoport66 Tandong Yao70 Robert Laughlin76 Bruce Alberts 82 Viola Vogel88 Pascale Cossart94 Brian Schmidt100 Avi Loeb106 Wolfgang Ketterle112 Ron Naaman118 Faith Osier126 Helmut Schwarz132 Bernhard Scholkopf138 Martin Rees144 Richard Timothy Hunt150 Carla Shatz156 Patrick Cramer162 Dan Shechtman168 Aaron Ciechanover174 Jian-Wei Pan180 Detlef Gunther186 George M. Church192 Frances Arnold198 Robert weinberg204 Peter Doherty210 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi216 Klaus von Klitzing222 Shigefumi Mori228 Cedric Villani234 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard240 Marcelle Soares-Santos246 Tao Zhang250 Paul Nurse256 Ruth Arnon262 Vittorio Gunturkun274 Carolyn Bertozzi280 Ulyana Shimanovich286 Richard Zare292 Ottmar Edenhofer298 Bruno Reichart304 Shuji Nakamura310 Eric Kandel318 Sallie Chisholm324 Tolullah Oni330 Robert Langer336 Anton Zeilinger342 Arieh Warshel348 Edward Boyden354 Sangheeta Bhatia360 Emmanuelle Charpentier368 Hermann Parzinger372 Maria Schuld374 Katharine L. Bouman376 Moises Exposito-Alonso378 Elaine Y. Hsiao380 Contributors 384 Afterword by Dr. Roland Busch385 Acknowledgments