The Israeli quantum physicist works together with the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bonn
Ofer Firstenberg from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, has been awarded a Bessel Research Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award, which is endowed with 45,000 euros, is considered an outstanding honor, especially for younger scientists, and is awarded to scientists abroad.Prof. Ofer Firstenberg has been in close contact with the research groups of Prof. Dieter Meschede and Prof. Sebastian Hofferberth at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) for many years. Both are members of the Transdisciplinary Research Unit "Matter" at the University of Bonn. ...