Korea Academy of Science and Technology elects four female Nobel laureates as foreign members

Four foreign members of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology. Provided by the Korea Academy of Science and Technology 

The Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) has elected four female scientists who obtained the Nobel Prize in Physics or in Physiology or Medicine as foreign members. These distinguished students from Sweden, Canada, Norway, and France will assist KAST broaden worldwide tutorial alternate and strengthen help for coaching the following technology of girls researchers by leveraging its community with them.

KAST introduced that on the ‘2026 Second Extraordinary Board of Directors Meeting’ held on the nineteenth, it elected four female Nobel laureates as foreign members of the academy. 

National academies world wide use a “foreign member” system to elect researchers of world renown who’ve contributed to the development of science and know-how, and to advertise worldwide tutorial alternate and analysis collaboration to be able to develop their very own international locations’ science and know-how. KAST additionally elects outstanding abroad students as foreign members inside a restrict of 20% (100 individuals) of the quantity of common members.

The newly elected foreign members are four students: △ Anne L’Huillier, professor at Lund University in Sweden (2023 Nobel Prize in Physics) △ Donna Strickland, professor on the University of Waterloo in Canada (2018 Nobel Prize in Physics) △ May-Britt Moser, professor on the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) △ Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, researcher on the Institut Pasteur in France (2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).

Professor L’Huillier is a physicist who pioneered the sphere of attosecond physics and obtained the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating experimental strategies to generate attosecond gentle pulses that make it doable to look at the movement of electrons inside matter.

Professor Strickland is a physicist who contributed to the event of ultra-high-intensity, ultra-short pulse laser know-how and obtained the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating chirped pulse amplification (CPA), a core method for producing high-power laser pulses.

Professor Moser is a neuroscientist who elucidated the ideas of spatial notion and place recognition within the mind, and obtained the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her analysis on grid cells that represent the mind’s positioning system.

Researcher Barré-Sinoussi is a world-renowned virologist who obtained the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for locating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the trigger of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

KAST presently has a complete of 59 world-leading students as foreign members, together with 34 Nobel laureates.

Taking this election as a chance, KAST plans to broaden its community of girls scientists who’ve achieved excellent accomplishments in numerous analysis fields and international locations, and to strengthen packages for worldwide tutorial alternate and for nurturing the following technology of science and know-how expertise. As the significance of fostering and supporting girls in science and know-how grows in an period of inhabitants decline, KAST goals to offer function fashions and construct a mentoring community basis in order that the following technology of girls researchers can advance as world leaders.

President Jung Jin-ho stated, “The inclusion of women scholars from various countries such as Sweden, Norway, and France in KAST’s foreign member and Nobel laureate network, which had been heavily centered on the United States and men, holds great significance in broadening the scope of global academic exchange and securing diversity,” and added, “We will promote practical exchange and participation programs so that the election of foreign members does not remain a purely honorary appointment.”