Science Busters! They are here! Not just anywhere! Rather exclusively on video at onestepahead.at!
Kapsch proudly presents: the legendary Science Busters: Heinz Oberhummer, Werner Gruber and Martin Puntigam. The crazy trio – the hottest science boygroup in the Milky Way - explain the unexplainable and betray the secrets of the widest ranging scientific phenomena – in fact everything that we have never understood and never had a heart to ask before.
We at Kapsch are delighted that the Science Busters have taken this step for us and are presenting their latest programme exclusively and uniquely on onestepahead.at.
The "experimental films" were also recorded in the premises of Kapsch, which is an ideal environment for the Science Busters because innovation and technology, scientific expertise and applied research are our daily bread at Kapsch.
The Science Busters were set up in 2007 by the two physicists Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heinz Oberhummer and Univ.-Lecturer Mag. Werner Gruber alongside cabaret artist Martin Puntigam and visual artist Christian Gallei. We hope you have lots of fun - and discover exciting challenges for your head and belly!
Dr. Heinz Oberhummer is a professor of the Vienna Technical University. His research covered nuclear physics, astrophysics and didactics. He has published important contributions including on tuning natural constants to the existence of life in the universe; his research has taken him to various universities and research organisations in Europe and the US. He is extremely interested in making natural sciences and technology more popular, especially with young people. In addition to working with Science Busters, he is also the initiator and coordinator of the EU project
"Cinema and Science". He is the president of the
"Gesellschaft für Kritisches Denken". His book "Kann das alles Zufall sein – Geheimnisvolles Universum" was selected for the 2009 Science Book award.
Mag. Werner Gruber studied physics at Vienna Technical University and has been a scientific employee of the Institute for Experimental Physics at Vienna University for neuro-physics and physical didactics since 1999. As a 17-year old he received the "First Austrian Youth Research Prize" in Linz for developing a three-dimensional screen. He has received several international prizes for his research, including the E.R. Caianiello Award for Biocybernetics. Gruber became famous as the author of popular scientific literature: "Hollywood und die Physik”, “Unglaublich einfach. Einfach unglaublich. Physik für jeden Tag.” and “Die Genussformel”.
Martin Puntigam is an author, actor and cabaret artist. His very first solo programme "Durch und durch" (1989) was awarded the Graz Cabaret Bird. Eleven other successful solo programmes have followed to date. Martin Puntigam has written plays (e.g. Tod im Hallenturnschuhlager, Teufelsgschichten und Zaubersachen). He co-wrote the "Sendung ohne Namen" shown on ORF (30 episodes from 2002 to 2007). He is the author and designer of the "Herr Martin empfiehlt" radio column in ORF's Ö3 (1993 to 1995) and ORF's FM4 youth radio station: Betthupferl, FM3000, Wochenschau, Ombudsmann, Wandertag, Science Busters. He also acts on the stage and in film.