Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy

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Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy
Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy
Logo of the HZB
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers
Seat of the wearer: Berlin / Bonn
Facility location: Berlin-Wannsee and Berlin-Adlershof
Type of research: Basic research , applied physics and chemistry
Subjects: Physics , chemistry , engineering
Areas of expertise: Solid state physics , materials science , photovoltaics
Basic funding: Federal Government (90%), State of Berlin (10%)
Management: Bernd Rech, Jan Lüning, Thomas Frederking
Homepage: www.helmholtz-berlin.de
Interview by Holger Klein with press officer Ina Helms about research at HZB.

The Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy ( HZB ), until June 4, 2008 Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin ( HMI ), after November 11, 2008 merged with the Berlin Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation (BESSY), is a scientific research center of the federal government and the state of Berlin .

It was founded in the winter of 1956/57 as an authority of the State of Berlin under the name of the Institute for Nuclear Research Berlin (IKB) and was inaugurated on March 14, 1959 as the Hahn-Meitner Institute for Nuclear Research Berlin in the presence of the namesake . Since 1971 it has had the legal form of a GmbH. The HZB has the legal form of a GmbH . 90 percent of society is held by the federal government ( Federal Ministry of Education and Research ), 10 percent by the state of Berlin. According to the shares, the HZB receives grants for its basic financing. On January 1, 2009, the legal merger of the Berlin Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation (BESSY) with the HZB became visible.

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin conducts basic research in the areas of structure of matter and solar energy at two locations in Berlin-Wannsee (Lise-Meitner-Campus) and in Berlin-Adlershof (Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Campus) . It operates two large devices, the Berlin experimental reactor (BER II) and the electron storage ring BESSY II .

In cooperation with the Charité , the facility also has a department for medical proton therapy, which is unique in Germany, for which a cyclotron provides protons with an energy of 68  MeV . Mainly eye tumors are treated there.

The HZB operates the Landessammelstelle Berlin (Central Agency for Radioactive Waste - ZRA) of the State of Berlin.

The HZB has around 1,100 employees, around 40 percent of whom are scientists. The facilities are also used by many visiting scholars. The institute is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers . The namesake for this community is the physiologist and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz ; for the HMI it was the two pioneers of radiochemistry and nuclear physics Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner .

Web links

Commons : Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The Helmholtz Center Berlin has a new scientific management team. Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, June 4, 2019, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  2. Imprint. Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Resonator podcast of the Helmholtz Association : The Helmholtz Center Berlin (Volume 12, August 9, 2013)
  4. Berliner Zeitung : “Berliner Hahn-Meitner-Institut gets a new name”  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 3, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.berlinonline.de  
  5. ^ First annual report 1957, Institute for Nuclear Research Berlin, May 1958
  6. ^ Second annual report 1958, Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung Berlin, July 1959
  7. ^ Website of the Proton Therapy Department of the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy
  8. ^ ZRA Berlin

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '36 "  N , 13 ° 7' 46"  E