Physics Show will start at the Millenáris park's Palace of Wonders at 10:00 on October 6 and run for an uninterrupted 33 hours until 19:00 the following day. The show is one of 33 science festivals taking place in Europe as part of Wonders 2007, a programme which sends the most successful experiment or project at each event to the next event. The Palace of Wonders will host a production sent by a science theatre in Luxembourg entitled The Magic of Chemistry. The best experiment or project in Budapest will travel to Waterford, Ireland, the next stop on the Wonders 2007 tour.
The Physics Show can be watched live on the internet at http://vod.niif.hu
Researchers' Evening
Last weekend's Researchers' Evening drew over-capacity crowds, said Katalin Kurucz, who organised the event for the Tempus Foundation. Some 600 researchers took part in more than 200 programmes at 50 venues in nine cities around the country, she said.
The organisers anticipated 10,000 people would participate at this year's programme, well over last year's 3,000, but the number of people exceeded even this projection, Kurucz said. Some 2,000 people came to the Millenáris park alone.
A project showing the future of Hungary was especially popular, as was a concert by an ensemble of researchers. But an exhibit allowing visitors to view the stars drew the most people.
Young Hungarian Scientists Take Prizes
Budapest was not the only place young Hungarian scientists showed their skills in September. In Valencia, Spain, Márton Spohn (18) took one of the top three prizes at the European Union (EU) Contest for Young Scientists, an initiative of the European Commission that showcases Europe's finest student scientists. Spohn won for his work with furanoterpenoides, chemicals responsible for self-defence in plants.
Another Hungarian in Valencia, the 15-year-old Dániel István Buza, won the European Patent Office prize for a motion-sensing computer programme.
Author: Péter Nyulász (egyszervolt.hu)
