Nobel Laureate Quits Prestigious Science Body, Citing Its Silence on War Crimes and Attacks on His Foundation
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Nobel laureate quits prestigious science body, citing its silence on war crimes and attacks on his foundation
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ferenc Krausz resigned from his membership of the Magyar Corvin-lánc Testület and returned the Corvin-lánc, an honour recognising excellence in Hungarian science, literature and the arts, Telex reported on Sunday.
The physicist explained his decision with two reasons.
He also gave up the Corvin chain.
In his response to the Telex, he confirmed that the Élvonal Foundation case was among the reasons. According to the letter we have received, he did not agree with the others on any other matter.
In his opinion piece published in Index, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ferenc Krausz provides a detailed account of the circumstances surrounding the termination of the Élvonal Foundation, the program's goals, and the criticisms it has received in recent months. According to the researcher, the foundation's operations were surrounded by numerous professionally unfounded claims, while only about 398 million of the more than 22 billion forints mad…
Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Ferenc Kraus renounced the state award “Hungarian Corwin Chain” and terminated his membership in the Council of this award due to disagreement with its position, in particular due to the lack of response to the Russian attack on the Ohmatdyt hospital in July 2024.
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