A few of this 12 months’s Nobel Prize winners will make a call to space on Monday (Dec. 11), and you’ll be able to watch online free of charge.
Two European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts — one among them here on Earth and the opposite aboard the International Space Station (ISS) — will speak with recent Nobel laureates throughout the event. You possibly can watch live here at Space.com, via ESA Web Two, at 9:10 a.m. EST (1410 GMT) on Monday.
The conversation will include ISS Expedition 70 commander Andreas Mogensen, astronaut Marcus Wandt (who’s scheduled to launch to the ISS early next 12 months on the private Ax-3 mission), and 2023 Nobel laureates Ferenc Krausz and Moungi Bawendi.
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“This will likely be a probability for 2 scientists, who’ve received their Nobel Prize medals the day before for the discoveries of attoseconds and quantum dots, to have a conversation with astronauts,” the Nobel Prize Museum wrote of the event.
“Join us to listen to their perspectives on the importance of basic science, how we’re continually expanding our knowledge in regards to the universe, and the challenges of conducting experiments in space.”
Bawendi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his applications of quantum dots, that are semiconductor nanocrystals. Krausz won the Nobel Prize in Physics with work on attosecond-scale pulses of sunshine that stimulate charged particles comparable to electrons in matter. (An attosecond is just 0.000000000000000001 of a second.)
The event will likely be livestreamed from the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, although not all guests of honor will likely be onsite. Mogensen is on the ISS, while Wandt will phone in from his training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.