Professor Ferenc Krausz, Max Planck Institute's Director Visits King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology.
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His Excellency, Professor Abdullah bin Abdurrahman Al Othman, King Saud University Rector, received yesterday morning (Monday), Professor Ferenc Krausz, Director of Max Planck Institute in Munich in Germany and his accompanying delegation, who are presently visiting the University. During the meeting, which was also attended by Professor Ali bin Saeed Al Ghamdi, King Saud University Deputy-Rector for Branches Affairs, Dr. Al Othman discussed with the German delegation ways of implementing the contract of services signed between the University and the Max Planck Institute, which aims at promoting the research partnership in the field of applied physics, particularly as concerns lasers and the NANO technology.
This visit follows a similar visit made by a delegation from King Saud University to Max Planck Institute early this year (in Moharram 1429). Professor Ferenc Krausz and his German delegation are due to visit King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology. Professor Ferenc Krausz expressed his happiness for this visit, which is his first visit to the region in general, and to King Saud University in particular, and his sincere hope for the success of this partnership. He also referred to the good reputation of the institute and its achievements both locally and internationally, mentioning for example, one of the institute's former affiliates, Professor Theodor W. Hänsch , Physics Nobel Laureate for 2005 and King Faisal International Prize winner, who is now one of the researchers in the research projects at King Saud University.
It is worth mentioning that the Max Planck Institutes are distinguished centers for basic research which have a good reputation in Germany and abroad, and that since their establishment in 1948, fifteen researchers from these institutes have won Nobel Prizes. It is also Known that these institutes carry out research in the fields of medicine and biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering, as well as in the domain of the social and humanitarian studies.