Trapped light particles, weight-losing kilograms and molecular motors touring through human bodies – these are the research topics built upon in this year’s public lecture series “Nobelpreisträger zu Gast an der TU Dresden” (Nobel laureates visiting TU Dresden). Organized by the TU Dresden School of Science, this successful event brings Nobel laureates to Dresden for the third year in row. With an audience of 800-900 guests per lecture in the past two years, a similar attendance is expected for the series in the Audimax this summer semester. On 11^th and 18^th April as well as 27^th June 2018, three of the Stockholm laureates will share with us their award-winning and current research projects. Along with them comes the spirit of the Nobel Prize!

Chemist Ben Feringa will explain The Art of Building Small on 18^th April. He found out how motors can be produced out of molecules, constructing the first light-driven micro-car from some few molecules in 1999 together with a team at the University of Groningen, Netherlands: Molecular chains, functioning as “wheels”, carry the “car body” from further chemical compounds. These molecular motors can be employed in the human body to build up muscular elements or micro machines, as well as to transport medicine. The Dutch researcher won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2016 together with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Fraser Stoddart “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.

Please register for the public talk:
http://event.mn.tu-dresden.de

Weitere Vorträge in der Reihe "Nobelpreisträger zu Gast an der TU Dresden":
11.04.2018: Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
27.06.2018: Serge Haroche, Nobel Prize in Physics 2012