Professor Tim Hunt from Great Britain: "I greatly appreciate the vitality, knowledge, and lack of formality of the Israeli scientists"
Nine Nobel laureates will participate in a special salute event in honor of sixty years of science in the State of Israel, which will be held at the Technion in preparation for next Independence Day.
Professor Michael Aviram from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, the organizer of the event, said that the response to the Technion's initiative by the Nobel laureates was great and enthusiastic.
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2001, Professor Tim Hunt from Great Britain, wrote to Professor Aviram that he would be happy to participate in this scientific salute event at the Technion. "I greatly appreciate the great vitality, knowledge and lack of formality of the Israeli scientists," wrote Professor Hunt.
The Nobel laureates who will participate in the event that will be held at the Technion campus on Monday, May 19, 2008, will be:
Prof. Peter Agra from the USA (nobel prize winner in chemistry for 1987);
Prof. Robert Uman from Israel (nobel prize winner in economics for 2005);
Prof. David Gross from the USA (nobel prize winner in physics for 2004);
Prof. Tim Hunt from Great Britain (2001 Nobel Laureate in Medicine);
Prof. Avraham Hershko from Israel (nobel prize winner in chemistry for 2004);
Prof. Kurt Wuttrich from the USA (nobel prize winner in chemistry for 2002);
Prof. Jean-Marie Len from France (nobel prize winner in chemistry for 1987);
Prof. Farid Mord from the USA (nobel prize winner in medicine for 1998);
Prof. Aharon Chachanover from Israel (nobel prize winner in chemistry for 2004).
The event will be opened by the president of the Technion, Professor Yitzhak Apluig, with a lecture on the topic: "From Chemistry to Medicine". The guest lectures will include diverse and fascinating topics such as "from basic to applied science", "science as an adventure", and "the future of physics".
The event will be open to the general public and scientists and students from all over the country will be invited to it. The Nobel laureates will meet with outstanding students and scientists in their fields of research, visit the relevant faculties at the Technion and travel in the north of the country.
