From Science Fiction to a Revolutionary Discovery: a Bulgarian Scientist is One Step away From the Nobel
Professor Ventsislav Valev got the award of the Thomas Young Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom for a revolutionary scientific discovery in physics.
Professor Valev has a very impressive biography and professional career in the field of physics. He was born in Silistra. He is currently a Lecturer in Physics at the University of Bath and a research fellow at the British Royal Society of Science. He is the leader of the group
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MultiPhoton NanoPhotonics which study the interaction between powerful lasers and nano-structured materials.
The professor says that science fiction has greatly influenced his work. The research group he leads seeks to uncover new physical properties and test theoretical hypotheses.
In 2019, Prof. Valev delivered a lecture at the high school in his hometown where he studied. The topic was "Nanoparticles, Robots and New Discoveries". To the young people then, he revealed how important imagination is to a scientist physicist. Before them he declared that there were miracles in science, too.
Young people of Generation Z have grown up in a world where possibilities are endless and technology is their way of understanding the world. Their ambitions and strive for knowledge will influence the development of science and the world as a whole.
Prof. Valev's discovery may help to find new means of nanoparticle treatment and production of high-tech chemicals.
"It is about how tiny nanoparticles made of gold or silver interact with laser light. When we make tiny springs of silver or gold, and we hold red light on to them, they scatter it, but if we hold a very strong laser on them, then can scatter other colors, including violet. We have been able to discover the mechanism by which these spirals spin. The principle of this discovery was written more than 40 years ago by Professor David Andrews. What makes our discovery unique is that theorists and experimentalists contacted us and now we are working on new discoveries", says the professor.
The Bulgarian scientist believes that one of the main challenges facing science and the world is the increasing resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics. According to him, there are opportunities for nanoparticles made of silver and gold to be used for therapeutic applications.
