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PTB-News 2.2020
29.04.2020

 

 

 Christian Sanner, Nils Huntemann, Richard Lange

Nils Huntemann and Richard Lange, who are both scientists at PTB᾽s Department 4.4, “Time and Frequency”, as well as their former PTB colleague Christian Sanner (now at JILA in Boulder, USA) received the 2020 Helmholtz Prize in the category of “Fundamental research”. The Helmholtz Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes in metrology and is awarded by the Helmholtz Fund every two years for outstanding scientific and technological research in the field of “precision measurement in physics, chemistry and medicine”. By means of a long-term comparison between two optical ytterbium clocks of PTB, Christian Sanner, Nils Huntemann and Richard Lange have succeeded in considerably improving the procedure to test the Lorentz symmetry for electrons. Their results were published in Nature.

Tanja E. Mehlstäubler

Tanja E. Mehlstäubler

The research group leader at the QUEST Institute at PTB has accepted a call to a W3 professorship for “Experimentalphysik mit Schwerpunkt Quantenoptik und Metrologie” ( “Ex pe r iment a l physics with a focus on quantum optics and metrology”) in a joint appointment procedure by Leibniz University Hannover and PTB.

Mathias Richter

Mathias Richter

The Head of Division 7, “Temperature and Synchrotron Radiation”, was elected as an Honorary Member of the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The institute thereby honored his contribution towards many years of successful collaboration between the Ioffe Institute, DESY in Hamburg and PTB in the field of “Metrology and Multiphoton Ionization in the Extreme Ultraviolet”.

Tobias Schäffter

Tobias Schäffter

The Head of Division 8, “Medical Physics and Metrological Information Technology”, was inducted into the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin- Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften). Mr. Schäffter is an ordinary member of the “Technological Science” class in the field of medical technology.