| 16th August 2010: Elementary particles starring a dance movie Scientists of the Max-Born-Institute in Berlin (Germany) measure directly the spatial positions of electrons and protons during a chemical reaction using ultrashort x-ray flashes. ... more. |
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| 11th August 2010: Electrons in motion In order to understand the behavior of atoms and molecules, it does not suffice to know their structure, but physicists furthermore want to observe their motions, and the motions of the electrons that are contained in them. Because electrons move so rapidly, this was not possible until now. However, a European team of researchers has now developed a method that allows to observe the motions of electrons. ... more. |
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| 3rd July 2010: Prof. Thomas Elsaesser, Director at the Max Born Institute, has been elected as a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He joins the class of mathematics and natural sciences. ... more. |
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| 10th June 2010: A look into the Interior of Molecules. For the first time ever, a European research team has managed to use attosecond laser pulses to observe the motion electrons in molecules. This report is published in the journal Nature. ... more |
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10th May 2010: World record for shortest controllable time Scientist at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Time Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin, Germany have now demonstrated timing control with a residual uncertainty of 12 attoseconds (1 Attosekunde = 10-18s = one billionth of the billionth of a second). This constitutes a new world record for the shortest controllable time scale. They reported about in Nature Photonics. ... more |
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14th April 2010: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner has been appointed Presidet of the German Physical Society (DPG). He takes over from Prof. Dr. Gerd Litfin, who leaves this honorary office and continues now according to the bylaws as DPG vicepresident. ... more |
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12th April 2010: Wilhelm Kuehn, Michael Woerner, Klaus Reimann and Thomas Elsaesser from the MBI have now demonstrated that crystal electrons in extremely high electric fields exhibit a completely different behavior. Their mass even becomes negative. ... ... more
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3rd March 2010:
Prof. Dr.
Marc Vrakking has been appointed as Director at the Max Born Institute (Division A: Clusters and Interfaces) ... more |
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5th Feburary 2010: Dr. Olga Smirnova, head of MBI's Juniorgroup in Theory, receives the Karl Scheel Preis of the year 2010. The prestigeous prize of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin (PGzB) is awarded for outstanding scientific work typically achieved after PhD. It includes a cash award of 5.000 € ... ....more |
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| 5th January 2010: The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Prof. Thomas Elsaesser an 'Advanced
Grant' of 2.49 Million Euros. The project aims at elucidating extremely fast
processes which determine the properties of hydrogen bonds in molecular systems. ...more |
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