The professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover receives the German Physical Society’s most prestigious award for experimental physics
Prof. Karsten Danzmann, director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover and director of the Institut für Gravitationsphysik of Leibniz Universität Hannover, will be awarded the Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft; DPG). He will receive the golden medal and a hand-written certificate on parchment in a Festakt on 7th March 2018 during the 82nd annual DPG meeting in Erlangen. The Stern-Gerlach Medal is the DPG’s most prestigious award for experimental physics. Danzmann receives the medal for his crucial contributions to the development of gravitational-wave detectors.
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