BioTechMed-Graz Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture

The lecture series "BioTechMed-Graz Nobel Lecture" celebrates the outstanding contributions of Nobel laureates in the research fields of BioTechMed-Graz. Once a year, BioTechMed-Graz invites a Nobel laureate to give a lecture in Graz.

Prof. Ferenc Krausz ©Stephan Höck, LMU — Prof. Ferencz Krausz, Credit: Stephan Höck, LMU

Prof. Ferenc Krausz, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), received - together with Pierre Agostini from Ohio State University (USA) and Anne L'Huillier from Lund University (Sweden) - the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for the establishment of attosecond physics (attoworld.de).

An attosecond is the billionth part of a billionth of a second. Laser pulses lasting just a few attoseconds can be used to track the movements of individual electrons. This not only provides fundamental insights into the behavior of electrons in atoms, molecules and solids, but could also have potential applications in electronics and medical diagnostics.

Past Nobel Lectures

Nobel Laureate Prof. Ferenc Krausz at the Nobel Lecture 2024 at Graz University of Technology.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"

Nobel Laureate Prof. Edvard Moser at the Nobel Lecture 2023 at the University of Graz.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared, with one half going jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser and the other half to John O'Keefe "for their discoveries of cells that form a localization system in the brain".

Nobel Laureate Prof. Bruce Beutler at the Nobel Lecture 2022 at the Medical University of Graz.

Prof. Bruce A. Beutler is an immunologist and geneticist and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2011 for his discoveries on the activation of innate immunity.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Stefan Hell at the Nobel Lecture 2019 at Graz University of Technology.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Stefan W. Hell, Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner "for the development of high-resolution fluorescence microscopy".

Nobel Laureate Prof. Harald zur Hausen at the Nobel Lecture 2018 at the University of Graz.

The internationally recognized researcher has contributed to the development of a vaccine against the most common type of cancer in women, cervical cancer. In 2008, the German scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.