Hector Research Award for KIT Scientist:

The physicist Prof. Dr Hilbert von Löhneysen from the KIT receives this year's Hector Research Award and now joins the group of "Hector Fellows". The Hector Foundation II thus honours seminal achievements in the natural sciences. Hilbert von Löhneysen researches quantum effects in metals and has discovered a new type of quantum phase transitions. In doing so, he managed to contact individual molecules and measure the electrical current running through these molecules. The award is endowed with 150,000 Euro.

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