Dec. 18, 2009
DESY celebrated its 50th birthday (Dec. 2009)
DESY was established on 18 December 1959 with the signing of the State Treaty between the City of Hamburg and the Federal Republic of Germany. The founding father and first director, Professor ...
Nov. 16, 2009
Offical starting shot for PETRA III (November 2009)
The world’s most brilliant synchrotron radiation source was inaugurated.
In Hamburg, researchers from all over the world will be able to use a new research facility of ...
Oct. 08, 2009
DESY congratulates Ada Yonath, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (October 2009)
Israel’s scientist Prof. Ada E. Yonath was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan und Thomas A. Steitz from the United States, for her studies of the ...
Nov. 30, 2009
European XFEL established under international law (Nov 2009)
With their signatures, representatives from ten nations today lay the foundations for the European XFEL under international law.
On 30 November 2009, representatives from Denmark, ...
Nov. 09, 2009
High distinction for Eckhard and Eva-Maria Mandelkow (Nov. 2009)
For their outstanding research on the causes for Alzheimer’s disease, the Max Planck scientists Eckhard and Eva-Maria Mandelkow were awarded the renowned “MetLife Foundation Award for Medical ...
Oct. 21, 2009
PETRA III reaches horizontal design emittance of 1 nm rad (October 2009)
Shortly after start-up, the PETRA III accelerator already set a world record in “lowest emittance”. The measure of the size of the light spot is a key parameter of the facility, ...
Oct. 08, 2009
The European XFEL GmbH has been founded! (Oct. 2009)
The “European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH”, was registered into the Commercial Register of the Hamburg District Court (Amtsgericht Hamburg) on 08 October 2009. The new company with ...
Sep. 29, 2009
Laying of the Foundation Stone for the CFEL building (Sept 2009)
On September 29th 2009, a first milestone in the construction of the CFEL building was achieved with the laying of the foundation stone. The Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) is a novel ...
Sep. 29, 2009
Limited liability company European XFEL GmbH can now be founded with DESY as shareholder (Sept 2009)
The international state convention on the construction and operation of the European XFEL was initialled on 23 September 2009.
From 21 to 23 September the cross-checking conference, which was ...
Jul. 28, 2009
Turning solid aluminium transparent by intense FLASH pulses (July 2009)
An international team of scientists from 20 institutes including HASYLAB/DESY, led by Oxford University researchers, discovered an exceptional behavior of aluminium. They observed for the first time ...
Jul. 27, 2009
Prototype sucessfully tested: More energy for FLASH (July 2009)
The newest accelerator module for the FLASH free-electron laser has successfully passed the test. Now it is possible to increase the FLASH energy towards 1.2 GeV. This means that even shorter ...
Jul. 21, 2009
Federal Government, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein sign European XFEL participation agreement (July 2009)
Schavan, Gundelach and Biel lay cornerstone at DESY
On 21 July, Federal Research Minister Professor Annette Schavan, Hamburg’s Science Senator Dr. Herlind Gundelach and ...
Jul. 20, 2009
First X-ray beam at the PETRA III light source (July 2009)
This weekend, scientists from the Helmholtz research centre DESY generated the first X-ray light for research at the new synchrotron radiation source PETRA III. This means that the most brilliant ...
Jul. 17, 2009
Autumn School 'Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science' (Lauenburg near Hamburg, Germany) (31 Aug. - 4 Sept. 2009)
The Autumn School will provide a systematic overview of application of neutrons and synchrotron radiation to the structural analysis of engineering materials. Students and young scientists from ...
Jul. 03, 2009
DESY participating in six projects of the Hamburg State Excellence Initiative (July 2009)
The winners of the Hamburg State Excellence Initiative were named on 3 July. DESY is participating in six of these 13 projects. Eight clusters of excellence and five graduate schools were selected ...
Jun. 26, 2009
In cooperation with DESY: Foundation of the “Helmholtz-Institut Jena” (June 2009)
On June 25, all partners (BMBF, TKM, HGF, and GSI, FSU, DESY) signed the memorandum on the foundation of the “Helmholtz-Institut Jena” (HIJ). This new Helmholtz-Institute with focus on lasers ...
Jun. 10, 2009
First International Symposium on Structural Systems Biology (Sept. 24-25, 2009 in Hamburg)
The First International Symposium on Structural Systems Biology will take place in Hamburg (Venue: University of Hamburg, Main Building), Germany, September 24-25, 2009. The symposium will feature ...
May. 20, 2009
'PhD Thesis Prize' of the Association of the Friends and Sponsors of DESY for Sebastien Couet and Michael Röhrs (May 2009)
This year’s PhD thesis prize of the Association of the Friends and Sponsors of DESY is shared by Dr. Sebastien Couet (Measurement of magnetic and structural properties of iron oxide at DESY and the ...
May. 13, 2009
FLASH experiment: At the limits of the photoelectric effect (April 2009)
Scientists from PTB (Berlin), Ioffe Institute (St. Petersburg), Fraunhofer Institute (Jena), Univ. Hamburg and HASYLAB/DESY discovered an exceptional behavior which concerns the fundamentals of ...
Apr. 29, 2009
2009 Compton Award was presented jointly to G. Grübel from DESY and scientists from U.S. and Canada (Apr. 2009)
The ninth 2009 Arthur H. Compton Award was presented by the Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source (APS) and the APS Users Organization jointly to Simon Mochrie (Yale University, New Haven, ...
Apr. 16, 2009
Clear the ring for PETRA III - World’s best synchrotron radiation source stored its first beam (April 2009)
DESY’s new synchrotron radiation source PETRA III stored its first beam ion 16 April, 2009. At 10:14 am, the positron bunches were injected and stored in the 2.3-kilometre accelerator for the first ...
Mar. 01, 2009
Helmut Dosch new DESY Director (Mar. 2009)
Professor Helmut Dosch has taken office as Chair of the DESY Board of Directors. At the ceremony on 2 March, the outgoing DESY Director Professor Albrecht Wagner symbolically passed the baton to his ...
Jan. 30, 2009
PHOTON SCIENCE 2008 available - Highlights and HASYLAB annual report (January 2009)
The "HASYLAB Jahresbericht" carried on a long tradition and summarized the photon science activities at DESY for more than 30 years. However, covering both user experiments and facility reports it ...
Jan. 30, 2009
HASYLAB Users' Meeting (January 2009)
About 340 scientists came to DESY to attend several workshops, the vendor exhibition, the HASYLAB and the XFEL users' meetings.
On 28-29 January 2009, the European XFEL Users' Meeting took place, ...
Jan. 29, 2009
DESY and India to collaborate in photon science (January 2009)
DESY has welcomed India as a new partner for a close collaboration in photon science at DESY´s light sources FLASH and PETRA III. On 28 January 2009, a delegation of scientists and Government ...
Jan. 27, 2009
First undulator installed in PETRA III (January 2009)
The brilliant storage ring is reaching closure: on 21 January the first of the 14 undulator magnets that will generate the brilliant X-ray light for PETRA III was installed in the 300-metre-long ...
