"El Secreto de la Naturaleza": screening and interview to Pedro Miguel Etxenike
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Pedro Miguel Etxenike
UPV/EHU - When
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2024/09/12
19:00 - Place
- Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián
- Organizers
- Basque Film Archive, UPV/EHU Chair of Scientific Culture, DIPC, San Sebastián Film Festival
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The Basque Film Archive and the Chair of Scientific Culture of the UPV/EHU, programs El Secreto de la Naturaleza (José Antonio Pérez Ledo, 2018), a documentary about Pedro Miguel Etxenike's reflections on science and beauty. The film, which will be presented by Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias (Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation) and Joxean Fernández (director of the Basque Film Library), will be screened at Tabakalera (Donostia) on September 12th (19:00). Afterwards, the physicist will be interviewed by Edurne Ormazabal (general director of Tabakalera).
The film, co-produced by the Chair of Scientific Culture of UPV/EHU and K2000, traces the life and work of Etxenike, who shares his reflections on science and beauty. To do so, the physicist starts with two aesthetic questions: “Is beauty the criterion of truth? What is beauty in science?
Pedro Miguel Etxenike, among many other awards for his research work, received the Euskadi Research Award in 1996, the Max Planck Physics Award in 1998 and that same year the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research for his discoveries in the theoretical prediction of electronic image states on the surface of solids. He has made important contributions in the field of ion-matter interactions and electron energy losses in electron and tunneling microscopy. He is currently professor emeritus at the UPV/EHU and president of DIPC. Every year he inaugurates the Film and Science series organized by the Basque Film Archive, DIPC and San Sebastian Intenational Film Festival.
Tickets for this screening are on sale at the Tabakalera website and the information point of the building.
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About the speaker
Pedro Miguel Etxenike is Professor Emeritus of condensed matter physics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and President of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Materials Physics Center (MPC). Honorary President of Jakiunde, the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of the Basque Country, honorary member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and of the Académie Royale de Belgique, and honorary member of the European Physical Society.
He has received numerous awards and distinctions. The Euskadi Research Award (1996), the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research (1998), the Max Planck Physics Award (1998), the Blas Cabrera National Research Award (2005), or the Gold Medal of the City of San Sebastian (2000) and of Navarre (2016), stand out among others. He is also Doctor in Science by the University of Cambridge (1998), and Doctor Honoris Causa by six other universities.
In addition to his research work, with more than 400 articles published in specialized journals and more than 200 invited talks at international conferences and prestigious universities and institutions around the world, in recent years he has devoted a great effort to promote science as an economic and cultural activity, and to highlight the importance of a scientifically informed society.