Michael Sohlman, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation, summarized the first days of the symposium and introduced the three panels.

(L-R) Professors Zare, MacKinnon and Rebek listening to the discussion of the medicine panel.

Professor Richard N. Zare of Stanford University.

Professor Julius Rebek Jr. of the Scripps Research Institute.

Professor Jeffrey M. Friedman of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University.

Professor Svante Pääbo of the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

(L-R) Professors Rebek, Zewail and Zare in the chemistry panel.

Cheerfully conversing during a break - Professor Eric R. Kandel (left) and a symposium participant.

The Aula Magna at Stockholm University during the open session.