Latest news on DESY Particle Physics and further information on events at DESY
14 April 2025
And the Oscar of Science goes to …
DESY scientists are among the recipients of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The Breakthrough Prizes, sometimes referred to as “Oscars of Science”, ...
31 March 2025
Beate Heinemann to lead DESY’s Board of Directors
Professor Beate Heinemann is to become the new head of the research centre DESY. On 1 April 2025, she will take over as the Chairperson of DESY’s Board of Directors, to which ...
12 March 2025
Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe honours two women physicists
The Beate Naroska Awards for the year 2024 will be awarded to Ursula Bassler (Professor at Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet at École Polytechnique) and to Azadeh Maleknejad ...
27 February 2025
Quarks experience forces equivalent to the weight of ten elephants
An international team of theoretical physicists led by DESY emeritus scientist Gerrit Schierholz has calculated the force felt by individual quarks inside of the building block of ...
