"A renowned German photographer combines portraits of and interviews with the world's leading scientists that look back at the personal experiences, successes and setbacks on their way to the very top"--

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