Presentation of Bjørn H. Wiik Prize 2002 to Dr. Thomas Möller

On Thursday, November 7, Dr. Margret Becker-Wiik presented the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize 2002 to HASYLAB physicist Dr. Thomas Möller.

The award recognizes "that under the leadership of Thomas Möller the first and at the same time scientifically outstanding experiment was carried out on Free-Electron-Laser at DESY", stated the selection committee. For the first time at TTF-FEL, an international team of scientists has studied the interaction of matter with intense soft X-ray radiation, emitted from a FEL on extremely short timescales, using Xenon-clusters.

Thomas Möller has been the moving spirit of the planning, the development and the realization of the experiment and he also gave the decisive impulse to the interpretation of the data. Therewith, he did all the preparatory work for the scientific investigation with the future TESLA X-ray laser.