Garching bei München or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. Postal code: D-85748. It is situated near the river Isar and the A9 motorway. The Munich U-Bahn metro line is currently being extended to Garching. With an area of 70,553 km² and 12. ... The Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München pronunciation) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ... The Isar is a river in Bavaria, Germany. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München pronunciation) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ... U-Bahn is a common German abbreviation, referring to a means of urban mass transit internationally known as subway, underground or metro. ...

A number of research and scientific educational institutions are located in Garching, including.

• Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

• Max Planck Institutes:
  • Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
  • Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics ( MPQ (http://hussle.harvard.edu/~atrap/Collaborators/MaxPlanck/MPQ.html))
    • -- ATRAP

• Several departments of the Technische Universität München (TUM), including:
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Science
  • Physics
    • The Forschungsreaktor experimental nuclear fission reactor
  • Department of Chemistry [1] (http://www.ch.tum.de/base/index_e.htm)
    • Department of Electron Microscopy [2] (http://www.ch.tum.de/em/index.htm)
    • Institute of Food Chemistry

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an international astronomical organisation, composed and supported by ten countries from the European Union plus Switzerland and was created in 1962. ... The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. ... The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. ... The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Germany. ... The Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) is a physics institute for the investigation of plasma physics, with the aim of working towards fusion power. ... Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university, located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Weihenstephan out of Munich). ... Sketch of induced nuclear fission, a neutron (n) strikes a uranium nucleus which splits into daughter products, and releases more neutrons to continue the process, and energy in the form of gamma and other radiation In physics, fission is a nuclear process, meaning it occurs in the nucleus of an...

External link

• http://www.garching.de/