Walther Meißner Institute for Low Temperature Research

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The Walther Meißner Institute for Low Temperature Research (WMI) is operated by the Commission for Low Temperature Research of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . It has been located at the Garching University and Research Center since 1967 .

history

In 1946, Walther Meißner , then President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, founded the Commission for Low Temperature Research together with the physicist Klaus Clusius , of which he was chairman until 1963. The commission was initially housed in makeshift buildings in Herrsching am Ammersee , which had previously been used by the Technical University of Munich due to the war. In 1967 the company moved to a new building belonging to the Central Institute for Low Temperature Research in Garching near Munich . This institute was established in 1982 in memory of Walther Meissner on the occasion of his 100th birthday in Walther Meissner Institute renamed.

The members of the commission are elected by the Academy's mathematics and science class from among its regular and corresponding members. In addition, the commission includes one representative each from the University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich for a period of five years. The respective head of the Walther Meißner Institute is also a member of the commission. The current director of the WMI is Rudolf Gross (TUM).

It is the task of the Walther Meißner Institute to support the commission in its research and training tasks in the field of low and extremely low temperatures . It carries out physical and physico-chemical research in this area. It also provides experimental facilities and techniques for research at low temperatures and develops new working methods.

Since September 2018, the WMI is the Cluster of Excellence involved "Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST)". In addition, since October 2018 it has been coordinating the EU project "Quantum Microwaves for Communication and Sensing (QMiCS)" ( quantum communication and quantum sensors ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Statutes of the WMI ( Memento from June 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ Press release BAdW

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 51.4 "  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 32.4"  E