Nobel Prize laureate & Visiting professor Peter Gruenberg gives a special lecture to high school students

- the “Exciting Mobile Science Classroom with National Research Foundation of Korea” held at KAIST on May 13

 

 

 

 

 

□ Prof. Peter Gruenberg who is a 2007 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics and the Director of Gruenberg Magnetic Nano Materials Research Center of GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, President ž Young Joon Kim) gave a special lecture to high school students.

 

o Prof. Gruenberg participated in the 1^st Exciting Mobile Science Classroom organized by National Research Foundation of Korea at the auditorium of KAIST on May 13, and gave a special lecture on the theme of the “singing rod and related acoustic phenomena”.

 

o He explained to 800 high school students who attended the lecture about physical phenomena witnessed in our daily life for two hours and his lecture was interpreted by Prof. Cho Byoung-ki at the School of Materials Science and Engineering who is the Deputy Director of Gruenberg Magnetic Nano Materials Research Center.

 

□ Prof. Gruenberg won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with French physicists Albert Fert in 2007 and taught at GIST as a visiting professor in 2011. Since May 2012, he has been the Director of Gruenberg Magnetic Nano Materials Research Center and engaged in research together with GIST professors and students.

 

 

o Prof. Gruenberg also gave a special lecture at Maesan Girls’ High School in Sooncheon, South Jeolla Province in June last year and, as such, has actively participated in knowledge-sharing activities.

 

□ < Exciting Mobile Science Classroom > is one of the major CSR programs of National Research Foundation of Korea. This year, students at primary and middle schools in Daejeon will be invited to research labs in person to let them have hands-on experience, in addition to the special lectures by Novel Prize laureates.