August 20, 2024 – 12:23 p.m
Nobel laureate physicist Ferenc Krausz was awarded the Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen on the occasion of the August 20 public holiday at the Sándor Palace on August 20, 2024 – Photo: Noémi Bruzák / MTI
Nobel laureate physicist Ferenc Krausz was awarded the Hungarian Order of St. István this year on the state holiday on August 20, reports MTI.
The President of the Republic, Tamás Sulyok, said at the award ceremony in the Sándor Palace: We are all proud of the physicist Ferenc Krausz in Hungary, and the results of his many years of research were confirmed by the Nobel Prize in Physics. According to Sulyok, Krausz and his colleagues have put new tools into the hands of humanity, with which the movements and energy changes of the electrons that make up atoms can be examined, opening up endless horizons.
“The light beam with which Ferenc Krausz shines makes visible a hitherto completely unknown dimension. The discovery can save lives in medicine, renew many theorems of physics and chemistry, make other researchers reconsider theories, and set the world in motion.” According to the head of state, all of this could have happened because there was someone who kept up with international science with his persistent work and brilliant insights, and then at one point broke to the forefront and created something unique.
“His success is a worldwide success, and it elevates us Hungarians as well”
Sulyok added.
At the award ceremony, Ferenc Krausz thanked the prime minister and the Hungarian government for their trust and continuous support, thanks to which in recent years he managed to build a team in Hungary that is second to none in the world. He said: the goal of the team is to lay the foundations for the preventive medicine of the future, so that they can create a much more effective healthcare system not only in Hungary, but also, they hope, in the whole world.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, former head of state János Áder and his spouse, Minister of the Interior Sándor Pintér and László Kövér, the Speaker of the Parliament, also took part in the event.
A few months ago, Krausz was awarded the Corvin chain at the Prime Minister’s request. In October 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier for the experimental methods that generate attosecond light pulses, which can be used to study the electron dynamics of matter.
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