The Ravello meeting

History

The Ravello meeting took place in September 1963 and was critical in the development of what was to become EMBO. Meetings had taken place on 28 March and 28 June in Geneva, hosted by Victor Weisskopf who invited the great and the good from several European countries, working from a list drawn up by John…

The meeting at CERN

History

The founding myth of EMBO, set out in John Tooze’s 1981 history of the organization for the launch issue of The EMBO Journal, is that: “In December 1962, immediately following the Nobel Prize investiture ceremony, John C. Kendrew together with James D. Watson visited [CERN] in Geneva. Leo Szilard… was also in Geneva at the…