The Hungarian-Austrian-born physicist, working in Germany as a director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Ferenc Krausz, who was one of the three joint winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded on Oct. 3, 2023, said, that he plans to donate the prize money to a charity he founded last year to help Ukraine.
He donates any prize money he wins to Science4People, an organization he set up in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
It must to mentioned, that NGO Science4People partners with some Ukrainian NGOs to provide learning opportunities to schoolchildren and works internationally to help Ukrainian students access higher education for free.
Ferenc Krausz was awarded the Nobel Prize along with Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier: “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
In the Nobel Prize press release, we can read: “The laureates’ contributions have enabled the investigation of processes that are so rapid they were previously impossible to follow”.
The three scientists will share a prize worth SEK 11 million (about $ 1 million).
P.S. On October 31, 2023, Professor Ferenc Krausz paid a visit to Transcarpathia to meet with teachers and students who are actively engaged in the “SKOLA+” educational project. This initiative is made possible through our partnership with the NGO “Tabula Rasa for the Future Generation”.
