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DESY celebrated its 50th birthday (Dec. 2009)
DESY was established on 18 December 1959 with the signing of the State Treaty between the City of Hamburg and the Federal Republic of Germany. The founding father and first director, Professor Willibald Jentschke, wanted to set up a competitive particle accelerator to take an active part in the upcoming research field of particle physics. In 1964, the first accelerator, ...

European XFEL established under international law (Nov 2009)
With their signatures, representatives from ten nations today lay the foundations for the European XFEL under international law. On 30 November 2009, representatives from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and Switzerland signed the “Convention concerning the Construction and Operation of a European ...

Offical starting shot for PETRA III (November 2009)
The world’s most brilliant synchrotron radiation source was inaugurated. In Hamburg, researchers from all over the world will be able to use a new research facility of superlatives: on the campus of DESY, a research centre of the Helmholtz Association, the world’s most brilliant and modern storage-ring-based synchrotron radiation source was ...

DESY congratulates Ada Yonath, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (October 2009)
Israel’s scientist Prof. Ada E. Yonath was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan und Thomas A. Steitz from the United States, for her studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, a part of the cell that synthesizes protein and translates genetic code in the production of protein. Prof. Ada E. Yonath, born 1939 in ...