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Nobel Laureates @ School
Learning Science From
a Living Physical Constant
“Be optimistic!” – Klaus von Klitzing
A highlight for the students: holding von Klitzing’s Nobel Prize
medal in their hands
The Nobel Laureate sharing his passion for Physics
with high school students
#LINO24 and the Lindau Spirit weren’t solely found at the
Inselhalle and the venues on the island. On Wednesday
of the Meeting week, Nobel Laureate Klaus von Klitzing
was invited to the Bodensee-Gymnasium, a local school,
where he discussed his Nobel Prize-winning discovery
with German, Austrian, and Swiss high school students
with a passion for Physics.
Von Klitzing received the 1985 Physics Nobel Prize “for
the discovery of the quantized Hall effect” which made
very precise measurements of electrical resistance possible through a universal constant which bears his name
(RK). Von Klitzing’s talk at the high school “From a Nobel
Prize to the New Kilogram” addressed his discovery as
well as the 2019 redefinitions of the SI base units as part
of which the von Klitzing constant was also assigned an
exact permanent value.
The format of the Student Talk with Nobel Laureates
is a tradition that both actively involves regional students in the Lindau Meetings and inspires them to possibly follow their own scientific path one day. Once again,
the participating students attentively listened to Klaus
von Klitzing’s engaging talk and their questions ran well
over the allotted time. Despite naming the climate crisis
as the most pressing issue in the natural sciences today,
the Nobel Laureate urged the students to stay positive:
“Be optimistic!”
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