Monday, 02 SEP

Video summary of Monday 02/10

The international science festival Passion for Knowledge (P4K) gets underway presided over by the Lehendakari (Head of the Basque Government) Iñigo Urkullu and also attended by Eneko Goia, Mayor of Donostia-San Sebastian, Eider Mendoza, Head of the Charter Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, and Pedro Miguel Etxenike, president of the DIPC. The public's response was excellent, as in previous editions, and the Victoria Eugenia theatre was packed to the rafters with people who had come to hear the two great stars of science who were participating: Özlem Türeci, winner of the 2021 Princess of Asturias award and key figure in the race for the Covid-19 vaccine; and Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Prize winner for her pioneering work in the field of lasers and third woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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NEW: This year the Passion for Knowledge Festival welcomes a new format where the best national streamers in scientific content will take the stage of the Victoria Eugenia Theatre to share their knowledge on a variety of scientific and technological topics. In this session, Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón will interview Sara García, on Molecular Biology and Space Exploration.

that Özlem Türeci was a key figure in the race for the Covid-19 vaccine? She and her husband, Ugur Sahin, lead the German biotech company BioNTech which developed the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine and for which they received the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.