Two Hungarians win the Nobel Prize

This year two Hungarian scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy: Katalin Karikó for Medicine and Ferenc Krausz for Physics. We congratulate the winners.

Katalin Karikó is the first Hungarian woman to win the Nobel Prize. She was awarded jointly with her colleague Drew Weissman with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for laying the foundations for mRNA-based medicine, which has also enabled the rapid development and practical application of new types of vaccines against COVID-19.

A day later, on 3 October Hungarian scientist, Ferenc Krausz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.

With these 2 new Nobel Prizes, Hungary has become the 14th nation in the list of Nobel Prize winners.

13 Oct 2023