Brussels, 26/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - The committee tasked with identifying the scientists to make up the future European Research Council met for the first time in Brussels on 25 January. This small “identification committee”, which is chaired by the former European Commissioner Chris Patten, now Chancellor of Oxford University, is also comprised of: the Nobel Prize-winner Erwin Hener of the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie of Göttingen; the director of the optical...