Honors for Christian Weinheimer and Harald Fuchs

We congratulate Prof. Christian Weinheimer on his election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He is now the 25th active member from the University of Münster.
Christian Weinheimer investigates the properties of extremely light neutrinos—by far the lightest and most abundant elementary particles in the universe—and searches for the elusive dark matter. Both topics play key roles in addressing fundamental open questions in particle physics as well as in understanding the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to its present structure. The methods and technologies he has developed for increasingly sensitive experiments are also being applied in other fields.

We also congratulate Prof. Harald Fuchs on his admission as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and as an “Elected Distinguished Fellow” of the International Engineering and Technology Institute.
In honor of Prof. Fuchs, the Department of Physics is hosting the “Symposium on Frontiers in Nano-Science - From Quantum Science to Nanophotonics, Precision Chemistry and Biomolecular Architecture” on April 29.
Further information for interested parties and registration at: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.PI/Fuchs/Symposium.html