2023 Hungarian Nobel Laureates Receive Prize in Stockholm

The two Hungarian scientists awarded the Nobel Prize this year, Katalin Karikó and Ferenc Krausz, received their prizes at a ceremony at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Swedish capital, Stockholm this Sunday as December 10 is the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the prize.

Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin Karikó shares the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with American physician-scientist Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Hungarian-born experimental physicist Ferenc Krausz, who has been the Director of the Max Planck Institute of Optics in Germany, shares the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics with French scientists Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.

In order to honor the Hungarian Nobel laureates, the Municipality of Budapest lit the Chain Bridges in the Hungarian capital with Hungarian colors this Sunday evening.