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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 superlatives: on the campus of the DESY, a research centre of the Helmholtz Association, the world’s most brilliant and modern storage-ring-based synchrotron radiation source was ...

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 Research” 2010. Both scientists and their team work on the DESY campus using the DORIS III accelerator beam to investigate the molecular causes of Alzheimer’s disease. “This ...

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 structure and function of the ribosome, a part of the cell that synthesizes protein and translates genetic code in the production of protein. Prof. Ada E. Yonath, born 1939 in ...

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, making PETRA III the best storage ring light source worldwide. In this summer, a total of 20 so-called wiggler magnets were built in and gradually started operation in the ...