At the end of the year 2009 we are looking back on a important year for Photon Science at DESY. During the year of the 50th anniversaryof DESY’s foundation we are very proud that Ada Yonath (Weizmann Institute, Israel), leading for 18 years the Max-Planck group “Ribosomenstruktur” on the DESY campus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on the structure of ribosomes together with two colleagues from the United States (see MPG-contribution on pages 68-69). We also celebrated the inauguration of our new third generation synchrotron radiation source PETRA III in the presence of the Federal Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, and the Hamburg Senator for Science and Research, Herlind Gundelach, together with a large number of guests of honour from all around the world. The year 2009 was also a year of major construction, upgrade, and commissioning of our new facili-ties for Photon Science.
Annual Report Highlights Photon Science