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Passions and Proportions
Christian Schmidt is a violin maker, musician, and painter:
A virgin’s urine for the varnish, wood from trees cut on new moon – there are many myths surrounding the Lombardic violin maker families Amati, Stradivari or Guaneri. All over the world these musical names make the…
Sabine Kunst Elected President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Current Minister of Science, Research and Culture of the state of Brandenburg will take up her post at HU at the start of the 2016 summer semester:
The Board of Trustees of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) has appointed Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst on Jan 19, 2016 as the new president. She is likely to take up her post at the start of the summer …
Pfeiffer Vacuum presents innovative vacuum solutions
Supplier of vacuum technology at the trade fairs Semicon Korea and Semicon China:
Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading global supplier of vacuum technology, will be exhibiting at the Semicon Korea Trade Fair in Seoul from January 27 to 29 and Semicon China in Shanghai from March 15 to 17. Visitors to the…
Every Farewell is A New Beginning
The future plans of Hardy Rudolf Schmitz, past managing director of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH:
Hardy Rudolf Schmitz was project manager at Boston Consulting, a consulting company, he was managing partner of CompuNet Computer AG, and, for 14 years, managing director of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH. Now the 65-year-old…
In Good Form
The start-up PensatechPharma develops new forms of pharmaceuticals:
PensatechPharma GmbH is a company specialized on innovative forms of pharmaceuticals. It is now looking for new solutions for difficult types of drug administration at its new location in Adlershof. Professor Roland…
Top-level athletics and university – does it go together?
Students from Adlershof en route to the Olympics:
They work hard for the Olympic qualifying and visit lectures at university at the same time – about 15 top-level athletes study on the campus of Humboldt-University (HU) in Berlin Adlershof. For Maria Kurjo and…
Hybrid solar cell could attain record efficiency of 30%
Helmholtz Scientists realize optimum band gap for silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell:
Tandem solar cells based on silicon and perovskites have raised high hopes for future high efficiency solar modules. A team led by perovskite solar cell pioneer Henry Snaith at the University of Oxford has now shown,…