Press Releases   2015/2014     2013     2012     2011     2010     2009     2008     2007     2006     2005...      Leibniz Prize 2007 for Guinevere Kauffmann December 2006 On December 7, 2006, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft announced that Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics receives the Leibniz Prize 2007. This highest German prize for supporting research awards Dr. Kauffmann for her work on the connection between the evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes. Nobel Prize recognises confirmation of the Hot Big Bang October 2006 On October 3 the Nobel Prize Committee announced the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics to John Mather and George Smoot for their leadership of two ground-breaking experiments aboard NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. Their work established that matter and radiation were in almost perfect thermodynamic equilibrium in the early Universe with only very weak non-uniformities which have since developed into the stars, galaxies and larger structures which populate the present Universe. A neutron star-driven X-ray flash associated with SN 2006aj September 2006 P. Mazzali, J. Deng, K. Nomoto, D. N. Sauer, E. Pian, N. Tominaga, M. Tanaka, K. Maeda, A. V. Filippenko The Supernova that Made the Crab Nebula July 2006 F.S. Kitaura, H.-Th. Janka, R. Buras, A. Marek, W. Hillebrandt Gold Medal for Simon White May 2006 Prof. Simon White, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, wins the Gold Medal 2006 of the Royal Astronomical Society LOFAR - a new radio telescope in Germany May 2006 German astronomers (including scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics) have made an important step towards the construction of LOFAR (Low Frequency Array), a new radio telescope that in a few years will be the largest telescope in the world. Starquake reveals hidden structure of a neutron star May 2006 T. E. Strohmayer und A. L. Watts New Map of Milky Way Reveals Millions of Unseen Objects March 2006 Revnivtsev M., Sazonov S., Gilfanov M., Churazov E., Sunyaev R.

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