Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte

The scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt revolutionized the sciences in 1828 with his conference in Berlin. He invited hundreds of scientists from all over Germany and Europe to exchange ideas together. Nothing innovative, you would think, if it weren't for his approach. He didn't want scientists to talk to each other, but with each other. Andrea Wulf describes in her beautiful book "The Inventor of Nature" how at this conference people not only went to lectures but also attended concerts, made trips to the royal menagerie on Pfaueninsel in Potsdam, and that they discussed in small groups with scientists from different fields. The message was not to dip vertically but to build bridges between different domains. He organized this conference for the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte.

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