Max Planck researchers win part of Descartes Research Prize 2005
On December 2 the European Commission honoured the most successful intra- European research projects of the year. The Descartes Research Prize went to five different projects, awarding 200,000 euros each. Max Planck scientists played a major role in two of the winning projects: "PULSE -- European Pulsar Research" (Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy) and "CECA - Climate and Environmental Chan...Wolfgang Heckl awarded Descartes Prize for Science Communication
This release is also available in .... ...Wolfgang Heckl, professor of experimental physics and nanotechnologist at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, who became the Director General of the Deutsches Museum in Munich on 1 October, was today awarded the European Commission's new Descartes Prize for Science Communication. This is the first time that this 50,000 prize has been awar...