Research Institute Manfred von Ardenne
The Manfred von Ardenne Research Institute , also known as the Manfred von Ardenne Institute or the Ardenne Institute for short , was a research institution that existed from 1955 to 1990 and was based in the Dresden district of Oberloschwitz . It was founded and directed by the German scientist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne after his return from the Soviet Union , and had around 500 employees in 1989/1990. Siegfried Schiller acted as deputy director from 1965 .
The institute, which also had a clinic, was the only private research facility and one of the largest private employers in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The predominantly application-oriented research concentrated primarily on the use of electron and ion radiation for scientific and technical purposes, vacuum deposition , electron microscopy and other areas of biomedical engineering . From around the mid-1960s, the treatment of cancer forms a further focus of research.
The most famous results of the institute's work included the in-house development of a heart-lung machine for the GDR market and the multi-step oxygen therapy for cancer. From the institute, the companies Von Ardenne Anlagentechnik (since 2013 Von Ardenne GmbH ) and Von Ardenne Institute for Applied Medical Research GmbH emerged . In addition, the Dresden-based Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology can be traced back to working groups of the former Ardenne Institute.
There are two observatories (Plattleite 27 and Zeppelinstraße 7) on the former institute premises.
literature
- Gerhard Barkleit : Manfred von Ardenne. Self-realization in the century of dictatorships. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-428-12084-0
Web links
- Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology
- Von Ardenne Institute for Applied Medical Research GmbH
- From Ardenne GmbH
- Observatory "Manfred von Ardenne"
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 34.6 " N , 13 ° 48 ′ 56.7" E