Prof. Heinz Maier-Leibnitz' 100th birthday

Professor Heinz Maier-Leibnitz would have turned 100 years on March 28th 2011. To celebrate his birthday, the FRM II honours the great physicist and co-founder of the physics department at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) by organizing a colloquium.

The two scientific institutes of the TUM bearing the name of Maier-Leibnitz, the neutron source FRM II and the Maier-Leibnitz laboratory, celebrated the birthday in a colloquium. Among the speakers were the Bavarian Minister for Science, Dr. Wolfgang Heubisch, the President of the German Research Association, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner and the President of the TUM, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang A. Herrmann.

MLZ is a cooperation between:

> Technische Universität München

> Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

> Forschungszentrum Jülich