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| Dr. Leibinger-Kammüller welcomes the guests to the fifth award ceremony. |
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| | The award ceremony of the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung was again a meeting place for users, developers and scientists as well as representatives from politics, press and associations. On September 15, 2008 250 guests joined the festivity in the auditorium at the headquarters of the TRUMPF group. The celebration continued with the proud prizewinners at the following reception.
The evening’s speech held by Professor Dr. Jürgen Mlynek, president of the Helmholtz-Society, looked at the big challenges of big science. To overcome the challenges it needs not only a long breath, far sight and the right goals, the really important factor are the people themselves, their ideas and talents, was one of Mlynek’s messages.
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Another high-light of the ceremony was the performance of the “Physikanten & Co.” Their performance with physical experiments was informative and entertaining for experts and layman a like.
The ceremony’s main event was the presentation of the awards to the prizewinners coming from Germany and the USA. For the first time the jury decided to double a prize. The third prize was given twice. Dr. Cary Gunn, cofounder of Luxtera in Carlsbad, California, received the third prize for his development work in silicon photonics, namely CMOS manufactured optical transceivers.
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Performance of
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The other third prize was presented to Dr. Jürgen Czarske, Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden, and two of his scientific co-workers Dr. Lars Büttner and Dr. Thorsten Pfister. They developed a new laser sensor that is not only more precise than existing detectors but can also simultaneously measure the velocity and the distance of objects.
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Meeting place: Dr. Schneider, prizewinner of 2000 and new prizewinner
Dr. Sandstrom. |
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| | The second prize went to Dr. Richard Sandstrom and Dr. William Partlo of the laser company Cymer in San Diego, California. Today’s manufacturing of microprocessors and memory chips would not be possible without their excimerlaser.
The prize money for the first prize is shared among four developers of Robert Bosch GmbH. Dr. Jens König, Dr. Thorsten Bauer, Dr. Markus Willert and Ulrich Graf were the first worldwide to introduce micro machining with ultrafast lasers in industrial mass production. A milestone not only for Bosch, but for laser technology in general.
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The award ceremony included the second presentation of the Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis. The international research prize is also biennially awarded for applied laser technology. In his laudation Professor Dr. Theodor Hänsch, Nobel laureate and member of the jury, recognized biochemist and Harvard Professor Xiaoliang Sunney Xie’s work on single-molecule biophysics and non-linear optical microscopy as very important applications of laser technology. His work, including real time films on the production of proteins in living cells would enable us to understand the genetic code and help find new strategies to fight against diseases. | |
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| Prof. Hänsch presents Prof. Xie with the Zukunftspreis |
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