University of Vienna: Nobel Prize installation with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Anton Zeilinger
On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the University celebrated its Dies Academicus; it was founded 660 years ago. Rector Sebastian Schütze marked the occasion by awarding an honorary doctorate to Emmanuelle Charpentier, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The academic ceremony was followed by the unveiling of the „Nobel Prize and the University of Vienna” installation, which had been adapted and expanded to include Emmanuelle Charpentier and Anton Zeilinger.
"With the honorary doctorate of the University of Vienna, Emmanuelle Charpentier receives a highly deserved award from the University of Vienna," said Rector Sebastian Schütze. The Nobel Prize winners Emmanuelle Charpentier and Anton Zeilinger also received their place in the main building of the University of Vienna. Here is a video of the unveiling of the adapted Nobel Prize installtaion.
After the academic ceremony, the newly adapted installation "Nobel Prize and University of Vienna - group picture with question mark" was unveiled in the Aula of the University of Vienna - in the presence of Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020, Anton Zeilinger, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, and the artist duo Bele Marx & Gilles Mussard.
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