2013

Carlo Weingart is awarded the "IBM Research Prize 2013" for his Master thesis "Origin of spin canting in multiferroic perovskites".

Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, has been honored as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA.

Scientists have replaced the telescope by the microscope: Using the similarities between the structure of a crystal and the state of the cosmos in the early universe, they have explored a yet unconfirmed phenomenon, the formation of cosmic strings. These so-called “topological defects” are believed to have formed as the universe expanded shortly after the Big Bang.