This year, Hungarian public media also elected Person of the Year. The award, established in 2020, can be received by someone who has had a significant impact on society through his greatness and humanitarian achievements. The Media Services Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA) announced that this year, in recognition of his outstanding scientific work and social activism, Public Media has awarded Nobel laureate Ferenc Kraus the Media Personality of the Year award.
Ferenc Kraus was born in Moore in 1962, graduated from the Department of Physics at ELTE in 1985, and received a diploma in electrical engineering from the University of Technology. He began his research at the Institute of Physics of the BME, and in 1991 he received his doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology.
Since 2003 he has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, and since 2004 he has been Head of the Department of Experimental Physics at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and since 2019 he has been Head of the Department of Experimental Physics. Hungary-based molecular fingerprinting company, which aims to develop tests for early detection of diseases. Director General and Scientific Director of the Research Center (CMF). His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Fejszál King and Wolf Awards. On December 10 of this year in Stockholm, he received the most prestigious scientific award, the Nobel Prize.
The MTVA emphasized that the purpose of the award, which was established by the public media in 2020, is to draw attention to the personalities who enrich the world’s galaxy, their distinguished achievements and their intellectual achievements. They pointed out that in the year of its foundation, Catalin Carrico, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist and biochemist and Cecchini, received the award, based on whose patent one of the vaccines against Covid-19 was developed.
in 2021 in recognition of his outstanding performance in his profession and his exemplary social responsibility They added that an Olympic, world and European champion could receive the award, and last year the designer of the Hungarian Music House, Japanese star architect Sou Fujimoto, was honored by public media for his exceptional work in Hungarian cultural life.
