This year the European Physical Society (EPS) distinguishes three professors from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) with internationally recognized awards: Prof. Peter Peter Böni and Prof. Christian Pfleiderer receive the prize of the EPS Condensed Matter Division while Prof. Reinhard Kienberger receives the prize in the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division. The European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) awarded Prof. Wolfgang A. Wall the Prandtl Medal.
For a long time skyrmions were merely a theoretical model in particle physics - until 2008, when Christian Pfleiderer, Peter Böni and their team discovered skyrmions in a magnetic material for the first time using neutron scattering at the FRM II. ...
