“Often I am asked why Korea hasn’t earned a Nobel Prize in sciences yet. I believe that a Nobel Prize in science for Korea is just a matter of time. There is so much great work going on here with first-rate scientists that it should happen within a generation.”

Yannis K. Semertzidis, director of the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and physics professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) shares his views on the ingredients to win a Nobel prize in South Korea and CAPP's goals in helping to uncover two mysteries of our Universe: dark matter and matter-antimatter asymmetry.

Read the full opinion piece on the Korea Herald.

▲ Yannis K. Semertzidis, director of the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research

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