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The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) is a worldwide operating physics organization. With 50,000 members (2005), it is the world's largest and the world's oldest physical society. It was founded in 1845 in Berlin. A black hole concept drawing by NASA. Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (physikos), natural, and φÏσις (physis), nature) is the science of the natural world dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Every year the society's conference, the so called "Frühjahrstagung der DPG", takes place at another location in Germany. There, the latest scientific results are presented and discussed, but also public talks for the general audience are given, focussing on physics topics of current interest. A black hole concept drawing by NASA. Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (physikos), natural, and φÏσις (physis), nature) is the science of the natural world dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces. ...
Peter Armbruster (born July 25 1931 in Dachau, Bavaria) is a physicist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Darmstadt, Germany, and is credited with discovering elements 108 Hassium, 109 Meitnerium, 110 (darmstadtium), 111 (roentgenium), and 112 (ununbium).
He was affiliated as professor to the University of Cologne (1968) and the Darmstadt University of Technology since 1984.
He has received many awards for his work, to mention a few: the Max-Born Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics London and the DeutschePhysikalischeGesellschaft in 1988, and the Stern-Gerlach Medal awarded by the DeutschePhysikalischeGesellschaft in 1997.
Therefore, the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft) joined forces with the `Gravitation and Relativity Theory' section of the German Physical Society (DPG) in organizing this school on selected topics in relativistic astrophysics, such as gravitational lensing, gravitational waves, neutron stars and collapsing binaries, and accretion phenomena.
The organizers, Hanns Ruder, Harald Riffert, and Hans-Peter Nollert for the Astronomische Gesellschaft and Friedrich Hehl for the DeutschePhysikalischeGesellschaft, wish to acknowledge the generous financial support from the WE-Heraeus Foundation which made this school possible.
We wish to point out that the names of the organizers of last year's school on ``Relativity and scientific computing'', Friedrich Hehl and Roland Puntigam for the DeutschePhysikalischeGesellschaft and Hanns Ruder for the Astronomische Gesellschaft, were inadvertently left out of the report on this school in the last issue of Matters of Gravity.
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