Award ceremony for year’s Kai Siegbahn laureate
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This year’s Kai Siegbahn Prize will be awarded on 10 September to Dr Claudio Masciovecchio from Elettra Synchrotron Light Laboratory in Italy. He will also give a lecture on free electron laser research in connection with the award ceremony.
Uppsala University’s most recent Nobel laureate, Kai Siegbahn, started the scientific journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research and when he passed away in 2009 the journal instituted the Kai Siegbahn Prize. It is conferred every third year to ‘recognize and encourage prominent experimental work in synchrotron light research with substantial features of instrument development’.
‘Scientific instrumentation was Kai Siegbahn’s main interest. He won his Nobel Prize for developing the modern electron spectrometer’, says Svante Svensson, professor of physics and organizer of the award ceremony.
Claudio Masciovecchio is a researcher in condensed matter physics at Elettra Synchrotron Light Laboratory, and his research primarily involves ultraviolet and x-ray techniques, as well as photoelectron spectroscopy. His instruments have led to important findings in materials research.
The ceremony, which will also include some brief lectures, will be introduced by Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson.
Time and place: 10 Sept, 2.00 pm, Kai Siegbahn Hall, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University.
Anneli Waara