During the day, ten Nobel laureates will give lectures to the student population and lecturers at the Technion.
Ten Nobel laureates have expressed their agreement to participate in the special salute event to mark sixty years of science in the State of Israel, which will be held at the Technion on May 19, 2008, close to Independence Day. The Nobel laureates who will participate in the event will be Professor Tim Hunt from Great Britain, Professor Kurt Wottrich from the USA (2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry), Professor Fried Mord from the USA (1998 Nobel Laureate in Medicine), Professor Jean-Marie Laine from France (1987 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry), Professor Guenther Blubel from the USA (1999 Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine), Professor David Gross from the USA (2004 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics), Professor Elie Wiesel from the USA (Nobel Peace Laureate for the year 1986) and the Israelis Professor Robert Uman (nobel prize winner in economics for 2005), Professor Avraham Hershko and Professor Aharon Chakhanover (nobel prize winners for chemistry for 2004). The event will be opened by the president of the Technion, Professor Yitzhak Apluig.
In addition to the scientific conference, the Technion will arrange for the participants and their spouses trips in Israel, festive meals and receptions with the participation of students, high school students, and faculty members.
The visit of Nobel laureates from around the world began yesterday, Sunday morning at the Technion. Three of them met for breakfast at their hotel with students from the Technion. Yesterday the Technion organized a trip to the Galilee and the Golan for some of the participants.
In the photo: Prof. Fried Mord, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine, at breakfast with students from the Technion.
For the interviews given by four of the winners to the science website in recent months:
- Prof. Elie Wiesel - scientists must not cooperate with dangerous regimes:
- Prof. David Gross from the USA (and a former Israeli) - The Israeli government acts stupidly when it harms higher education
- Prof. Tim Hunt from Great Britain - there are more open questions in biology than in mathematics
- Prof. Kurt Wottrich from the USA - Israeli scientists are strong in basic science, and I wish them to continue like this
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This week there are also a large number of Fields Medal recipients in Israel for a conference at Bar Ilan University.