Thorsten Schumm gets START-Award
Federal Minister Johannes Hahn has nominated 6 top researchers who will be funded with the START-Program of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Physicist Thorsten Schumm at the Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics of Vienna University of Technology is one of the winners. Congrats! - Nuclear physics with a laser: 229Thorium. Atoms, as building blocks of nature, consist of an atomic nucleus and the electron shell. Both systems are governed by similar laws and forces. However, the required energies to create changes (e.g. excitations) in the nucleus or the electron shell differ by many orders of magnitudes.
