Hungary Today asked Professor Vizi E. Szilveszter, the former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, how he reacted to the amazing news about the two Nobel Prizes awarded to Hungarian scientists this week. Professor Vizi is the president of the Hungarian Friends Foundation (MOBA), which publishes our news portals, and a member of one of our award-winning Ferenc Krausz MOBA foundations.

In recent days, we witnessed a "Nobel Prize winner" in Hungary, Professor Vizi stated. Two Hungarians received the Nobel Prize, Katalin Karikó for medicine and Ferenc Krausz for physics. It is not the first time that two Hungarian Nobel Prizes are awarded in the same year - György Oláh, founding member of MOBA, and János Harsányi received the prize in the same year, 1994. György Oláh in chemistry, and János Harsányi in economics. Both were born and grew up in Hungary - reminded Professor Vizi.

Similarly, the current laureate, also a member of MOBA, Professor Ferenc Krausz was born and raised here - emphasized the former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This is proof that Hungary produces incredible talents every year. However, science is international, and there is rarely a chance to work in one area, one city, one country, since new techniques and methods must be spread worldwide in order to develop. Those who go to another country, another area to apply these techniques, confirm that science is really based on international cooperation.

In this, we scientists are quite different from politicians. Our results are based on the results of previous scientists. Science itself is a joint project, everyone contributes something. Who gets to the top, who is the genius who finally deserves it, is to a certain extent a matter of diligence and will, Professor Vizi added.

Both Karikó and Krausz have Hungarian passports, are Hungarian citizens, and both are members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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https://hungarytoday.hu/nobel-prize-oh-yes-they-are-very-much-hungarian/

It can also be read on the Ungarn Heute news portal

https://ungarnheute.hu/news/nobelpreis-oh-ja-sie-sind-sehr-ungarisch-69008/