Research and research buildings: the example of Life Sciences

Abstract

The image of the distracted professor working isolated in his study is a thing of the past. Scientific research is still carried out by individuals, but the achievements of somebody like Mendel who conducted his experiments in the seclusion of a monastery garden and created a new scientific discipline are inconceivable today. Contemporary molecular life sciences bring together such an enormous amount of information that one scientist by himself would not have a chance of making a significant discovery.