The Night of Science is a yearly student-organized event offering over 90 lectures, guided tours, booths and more.
On June 21st, from 5pm until 6am at Campus Riedberg you can get fascinating information about all aspects of natural and life sciences – and participate in lots of things!
The NoS is free to attend for anyone and everyone, food and merch can be bought though.
More information about english-language lectures (and possibly tours) will be updated shortly.
Our 2024 figurehead: Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner, born in Vienna in 1878, obtained her doctorate there in 1906 and became the first female physics professor at a German university in 1926. After decades of discrimination in her studies and career due to her gender, which, among other things, meant she had to work without pay for several years, she was finally forced to flee due to her Jewish origins. However, we remember her for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity and, in addition to the first explanation of nuclear fission, the most important experiments in this field. Nevertheless, it was her colleague and friend Otto Hahn who won the Nobel Prize for this work in 1944. 80 years later, however, we would like to remember her, her research and her achievements and have therefore chosen Lise Meitner as the figurehead of the Night of Science 2024.