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- Title
Turning the Ship: The Transformation of DESY, 1993-2009.
- Authors
Heinze, Thomas; Hallonsten, Olof; Heinecke, Steffi
- Abstract
This article chronicles the most recent history of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) located in Hamburg, Germany, with particular emphasis on how this national laboratory founded for accelerator-based particle physics shifted its research program toward multi-disciplinary photon science. Synchrotron radiation became DESY's central experimental research program through a series of changes in its organizational, scientific, and infrastructural setup and the science policy context. Furthermore, the turn toward photon science is part of a broader transformation in the late twentieth century in which nuclear and particle physics, once the dominating fields in national and international science budgets, gave way to increasing investment in the materials sciences and life sciences. Synchrotron radiation research took a lead position on the experimental side of these growing fields and became a new form of big science, generously funded by governments and with user communities expanding across both academia and industry.
- Subjects
SYNCHROTRON radiation; ELECTROMAGNETIC waves; PHOTONS; PARTICLE accelerators; DEUTSCHES Elektronen-Synchrotron (Center)
- Publication
Physics in Perspective, 2017, Vol 19, Issue 4, p424
- ISSN
1422-6944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00016-017-0209-4