Beyond

If you want to get to know the scientists behind the work even better, this is just the right place for you. In this section of Beyond, the researchers present books which have impacted their lives and their ways of thinking in meaningful ways. The books presented range from novels, to memoirs, to science books of all sorts. You can filter the books by genre or just scroll through the list. This is also a great way to get inspiration for your own reading!

Stephan Lauermann

Ronja, the robbers daughter

Some books are written for children, some for adults but Astrid Lindgren wrote books for every generation. Ronja, the robbers daughter is one of her masterpieces.

Thomas Tröger

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adam's novel has long become a classic of modern pop culture: The wondrous story of Arthur, who on his journey through the universe meets all sorts of strange creatures, aliens and challenges beyond logic. An absolute must-read!

Laurens W. Molenkamp

A Life of Erwin Schrodinger

Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. He was best known for the discovery of wave mechanics, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics, but his most influential book What Is Life? served to attract some of his brightest scientific contemporaries into molecular biology.

Astrid Eichhorn

A Room of One's Own

Although written in the 1920s, Virginia Woolf is still considered a luminary of feminism. With "A Room of One's Own" she has written a work that captures women's desire for freedom and independence like no other.