Those who write (scientific) history
The European Physical Society honours PTB with its Berlin Institute as an EPS Historic Site
The EPS Historic Site award is a recently established honour, which the European Physical Society (EPS) is now presenting to an institution in Germany for the first time. The discovery of fundamental laws of physics and effects such as Wien's radiation law, the Einstein-de Haas effect, the Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect and precision measurements of black-body radiation represent the scientific reputation of the Reichsanstalt - all scientific findings, which have significantly led to this award. The President of EPS, John Dudley, together with the President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Johanna Stachel, will award PTB the honour of being a Historic Site in a ceremony on 8 October 2013 at the Berlin Institute. Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Physics Nobel Prize 2001) and a member of PTB's Kuratorium (Advisory Board) will give a commemorative lecture on "Observing Quantum Matter near Absolute Zero Temperature". The Federal Minister of Economics and Technology (BMWi) as well as the Federal Minister of Education and Research (BMBF) have said that they will attend the ceremony.
Press representatives are warmly welcomed to the ceremony which is taking place on the same day as the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics by the Nobel Prize Committee in Stockholm. Please register in advance with the Press and Information Office of PTB (presse@ptb.de) if you wish to attend. Please also let us know if you have any specific interview requests.
EPS Historic Site, PTB's Berlin Institute, Abbestraße 2-12
Programme of the Ceremony on 8 October 2013
Start: 4:00 p.m.
Welcome by the President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Prof. Dr. Joachim Ullrich
Address by the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology (BMWi)
Dr. Philipp Rösler
Address by the Federal Minister of Education and Research (BMBF)
Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka
Address by the President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) )
Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel
Presentation of the commemorative plaque by the President of the European Physical Society (EPS) )
Prof. Dr. John Dudley
Historical review: "Discovering the Quantum Nature of Light")
Prof. Dr. Hans Koch, Head of the Berlin Institute (PTB)
Commemorative lecture: "Observing Quantum Matter near Absolute Zero Temperature")
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle (Physics Nobel Prize 2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT)
Stand-up reception: about 6:00 p.m.
Opportunities to take photos during the ceremony:
4:45 p.m. / 5.00 p.m.
Presentation and awarding of the EPS Historic Site commemorative plaque
6:30 p.m.
Attaching the commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Siemens Building of the Berlin Institute