Awards

Prof. Albert Furrer receives the 2005 Walter Hälg Prize
The former head of the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering (LNS) and member of MaNEP Prof. Albert Furrer (ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute) has been awarded the prestigious Walter Hälg Prize of the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA), jointly with Prof. Hans Ulrich Güdel (University of Bern). The 2005 Prize will be presented during the International Conference on Neutron Scattering in Sidney, between November 27 and December 2. The ENSA Prize is awarded every two years to European scientists for an outstanding programme of research in neutron scattering with a long term impact on scientific and/or technical applications.
[download the Pres Release in PDF for more infos]
[more infos on Prof. Albert Furrer on the ENSA website]

Prof. Oystein Fischer awarded a Honoris Causa Doctorate from UniNE
During the Dies Academicus of the University of Neuchatel that took place on Saturday November 5, 2005 - in the presence of Charles Kleiber, the State Secretary for Education and Research - Prof. Oystein Fischer received a Honoris Causa Doctorate. With this gesture, the press release says, '... the Faculty of Sciences wishes to honour a world-known physicist for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of condensed matter physics and for the close collaboration he has maintained with the research groups at the Institute of Physics of the UniNE that are working in this field (...) '
[download the full press release in PDF - see page 23 concerning Pr. Fischer]