Lecture by Nobel laureate Ben Feringa: The Art of Building Small – from molecular switches to motors

Ben Feringa, a professor at the University of Groningen, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016, sharing it with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage for their work on the design and synthesis of molecular machines. Professor Feringa was the first to create a molecular rotor blade that rotated continuously in the same direction, capable of spinning a glass cylinder about ten thousand times larger than the molecular motor.

He is also credited with creating the molecular car (a so-called nanocar)

The Nobel laureate in chemistry was invited to Budapest by two professors from ELTE - András Perczel, the president of the Chemistry Sciences Department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Péter Szalay, the president of the Hungarian Chemists' Association - to meet Hungarian students, doctoral students, and researchers. During his stay in Budapest, Professor Feringa will give a lecture at ELTE, participate in a roundtable discussion at BME, and meet with students, chemists, and enthusiasts at HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (also known as HUN-REN TTK)..

Registration: until 16 May 2024, at the following link: https://mta.hu/esemenynaptar/2024-05-16-ben-feringa-nobel-dijas-kutato-eloadasa-the-art-of-building-small-from-molecular-switches-to-motors-5262

The number of available places is limited so please register if you’d like to come.

You can also find a summary of his lecture on the website above.