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Events

13.02.2012 - 09:00 A (not so) WISPy Lecture Day

13.02.2012 - 10:00 Betriebsversammlung

13.02.2012 - 11:00 Neue Konzepte für Nd:YV04 Laser

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08.02.2012

Scientists make iron transparent

At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has...

03.02.2012

OLYMPUS starts research programme

In the past decades, the image of the proton has become ever more precise. Especially DESY's accelerator HERA has helped...

31.01.2012

20 years of DESY in Brandenburg

On 1 January 1992, the GDR Institute of High-Energy Physics was officially unified with the Hamburg research centre DESY. Today,...

29.01.2012

Scientists x-ray key enzyme for sleeping sickness

An international team of scientists has for the first time crystallised a key enzyme of the pathogen for African sleeping sickness...

27.01.2012

Promising New Material for Lithium Batteries

Researchers from Germany and the United States have identified a promising new material for use in lithium ion batteries. The...

26.01.2012

The first atomic X-ray laser

A group of scientists headed by Nina Rohringer from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) realized the first...

25.01.2012

Guinness World Record: X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie

It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg. In its 2012 edition, the...

16.01.2012

World's best metronome enables slow-motion pictures of atoms and molecules

The world's most accurate metronome keeps stroke to an incredible 10 quintillionth of a second. The device enables slow-motion...

13.01.2012

The world's smallest magnetic data storage unit

Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data...

21.12.2011

Reinhard Brinkmann confirmed in office for five more years

In the session on 14 December, the DESY Administrative Council appointed Dr. Reinhard Brinkmann for another five years as Director...

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