News of the Year

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will promote “Collaborative Research Center 1227 – Designed Quantum Material States” (DQ-mat) at Leibniz University Hannover for four more years and provide roughly 9.2 million euros in funding. PTB is also involved. In DQ-mat, scientists go beyond the limits of traditional physics and are investigating the world of quantum mechanics with its phenomena like...

In a research project that started in October 2020, the departmental research institutes of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) want to look into their past, focusing on the national socialist (Nazi) period and the post-war years in a research project that is jointly supported by the BMWi. The BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, the Federal Institute...

He revolutionized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is why he has been given this year’s Werner von Siemens Ring. “He” being Jens Frahm, the physicist from Göttingen, who has now received the most prestigious German technology prize. Professor Frahm, who today heads the “Biomedical NMR” research group at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, enabled MRI technology to triumph by...