Five Nobel laureates will visit the University of Valencia this June 5 to participate in various colloquiums and conferences, in an action promoted by the Rey Jaime I Awards Foundation. Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn (Chemistry, 1987), Jean Pierre Sauvage (Chemistry 2016), Von Klitzing (Physics, 1985), Anton Zeilinger (Physics 2022) and Ben Feringa (Chemistry 2016) will be hosted by the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol), the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) and the Interuniversity Institute for Molecular Recognition Research and Technological Development (IDM)
The Marie Curie Auditorium of the Science Park of the University of Valencia (PCUV) will be the venue for the meeting between two of the three visiting Nobel laureates in Chemistry -Lehn and Sauvage- and an audience of students and researchers related to the discipline. This is an activity organized by the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol), a research center of the University of Valencia that has the accreditation of 'María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence' and focuses its research on the molecular aspects of nanoscience. The event will begin at 10:30 am.
At the same time, in the Graduate Hall of the School of Engineering (ETSE), will begin the visit to the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) of physicists Von Klitzing and Anton Zeilinger, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1985 and 2022, respectively. This joint center of the Universitat de València and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas is dedicated to research in Nuclear, Particle and Astroparticle Physics, as well as its applications in Medical Physics and other fields of Science and Technology. The visit will be followed by a meeting, in the form of a round table, between the two scientists and a group of PhD students.
Finally, Bern Feringa will meet with students and researchers invited by the Interuniversity Institute for Molecular Recognition Research and Technological Development (IDM), a joint center of the Universitat de València (UV) and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) dedicated to research, teaching and knowledge transfer in different aspects of human health, safety, food and the environment. The Dutch scientist will give a talk entitled The art of Building Small, molecularswitches and motors. It will be at 10:30h in the Assembly Hall of the School of Industrial Engineering (ETSII) of the UPV.
The visit of the Nobel laureates to Valencia takes place within the framework of the King Jaume I Awards for the promotion of research, scientific development and entrepreneurship in Spain
The visit of the Nobel laureates to Valencia takes place within the framework of the King Jaume I Awards for the promotion of research, scientific development and entrepreneurship in Spain, granted by the King Jaume I Awards Foundation and whose jury includes numerous Nobel laureates -21 in the current edition-.
During the days of the jury meeting in Valencia, every June, the Nobel laureates are involved in different activities -colloquia, talks and visits- organized by research centers and other organizations in the Valencian Community. After the deliberation of the juries, the winners are proclaimed at the Palau de la Generalitat.
Five Nobel laureates
Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn (Rosheim, France, 1939. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987). His work has especially contributed to the development of supramolecular chemistry. Lehn's research led him in 1968 to the creation of a molecule capable of combining with the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, the chemical transmitter of signals in the nervous system. He also developed a terminology that would become accepted in the nomenclature of organic chemistry: he called the cavities within molecules crypts. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Charles J. Pedersen and Donald J. Cram, for the development and use of molecules that interact with high selectivity.
Jean Pierre Sauvage (Paris, France, 1944. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016). He is one of the pioneers of supramolecular chemistry. He published in 1983 the first efficient synthesis of intertwined cyclic molecules called "catenanes". These molecules were the basis of one of the first molecular machines in which the motion of the catenane rings was controlled through electrochemical and photochemical means. One of the rings rotated around the loop created by the other, in a manner that could be controlled. He had just built the first ever nanometer-sized wheel. In 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Bernard Feringa and Fraser Stoddart, for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
During the days of the jury meeting in Valencia, every June, the Nobel laureates are involved in different activities -colloquia, talks and visits- organized by research centers and other organizations in the Valencian Community. After the deliberation of the juries, the winners are proclaimed at the Palau de la Generalitat
Von Klitzing (Schroda-Rosen, Germany, 1943. 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics). He received the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the "quantum Hall effect", which is used as a worldwide reference to measure the unit of electrical resistance ohm (Ω), key to industrial and household electrical energy measurements, among other applications. Since 1990, its discovery has been used worldwide to perform all resistor calibrations. This was the first major application in metrology, the science of measurements.
Anton Zeilinger (Ried im Innkreis, Austria, 1945. Nobel Prize in Physics 2022) is a theoretical and experimental physicist, current president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Nobel Laureate in Physics together with Alain Aspect and John Clauser for their experiments with entangled photons. His research laid the foundation for the rapid development of new applications in computer science and cryptography.
Bernard Lucas Feringa, better known as Ben Feringa (Barger-Compascuum, The Netherlands, 1951 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016) is a Dutch organic chemist, specialized in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis. He is a university professor of molecular physics at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Groningen and an academician and chairman of the Council of the Science Division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Fraser Stoddart, for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.