Famous Well-Wisher: Nobel Laureate Hell at the JKU

A Nobel Prize winner was among the well-wishers at a ceremony today marking the Faculty of Engineering & Natural Science’s 50th anniversary and honoring the academic areas of Mathematics and Physics.

Photo (f.l.): Dean Norbert Müller, Nobel Laureate Stefan W. Hell and Univ. Prof. Thomas A. Klar, head of the JKU Institute for Applied Physics.
Photo (f.l.): Dean Norbert Müller, Nobel Laureate Stefan W. Hell and Univ. Prof. Thomas A. Klar, head of the JKU Institute for Applied Physics.

The Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences (TNF) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz is celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout the year. Today’s ceremony honored the academic areas of Mathematics and Physics and among the well-wishers: Nobel Laureate Stefan W. Hell, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. The interdisciplinary physicist won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy has strongly influenced base-knowledge research in cell biology and physiology.

Hell credits the TN’s strong reputation and positioning to the Faculty’s interdisciplinary nature and the unique way the faculty is integrated into the Faculty of Medicine; a unique combination in Austria. He remarked, “I believe that during the next half century we can expect many new cutting-edge advancements from the JKU.”