Nobel laureate Klaus von Klitzing to drawn by HUN-REN SZTAKI's drawing robot on the last day of IMEKO World Congress 2024

Professor Klitzing, who gave a keynote lecture on the morning of the closing day of the conference, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1985 for his discovery of the quantum Hall effect, which eventually led to major advances in metrology.

The final day of the IMEKO World Congress 2024 took place on 29 August 2024. In his closing keynote lecture at the Hamburg event, Professor Klitzing spoke about one of the most important milestones in metrology, the discovery that led to the modern rendition of the International System of Units: the quantum Hall effect, which he discovered in 1980, made the 1-kilogram standard of weight measurement retireable in practice.

After the lecture, the professor visited the drawing robot of HUN-REN SZTAKI. A video was also made of the event.

HUN-REN SZTAKI was at the exhibition all week, we wrote about the first day here, the second day here and the third day here. A photo gallery of the fourth day can be found on the institute's official Facebook page by clicking here.

The International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) is an international, scientific organisation covering the complete range of measurement, which has 41 official country members from all over the world. IMEKO members present their scientific results at conferences in 25 different subfields every year. The sub-areas (TCs, Technical Committees) decide when and where to organize their annual conference, except for the world conference every 3 years, in such a year, IMEKO members come together in one place in the world. The 2027 congress will be held in Italy.