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The Institute of Physics<\/strong> is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics<\/a><\/strong>, and its members are dedicated to research and teaching in many areas of modern physics. They are supported by an efficient administration and various service groups.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Students<\/td>approx. 700<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral students<\/td>approx. 150<\/td><\/tr>
Professors<\/td>22<\/td><\/tr>
Coopted and Honorary Professors<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>
Lecturers<\/td>20<\/td><\/tr>
Technical Staff<\/td>approx. 120<\/td><\/tr>
Administrative Staff<\/td>approx. 50<\/td><\/tr>
Third-party funding<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Publications (peer reviewed)<\/td>approx. 250 \/ year<\/td><\/tr>
Study programs<\/td>Physik (B.Sc.)
Physik (Polyvalenter 2-HF Bachelor)
Physics (M.Sc.)
Applied Physics (M.Sc.)
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1891<\/td>Establishment of the Physical-Physiological Institute at Albertstrasse 17<\/td><\/tr>
1895<\/td>Appointment of Franz Himstedt<\/strong> to the Chair of Physics (1895-1923)<\/td><\/tr>
1898<\/td>Establishment of the natural sciences and mathematics section within the Faculty of Philosophy<\/td><\/tr>
1904<\/td>Establishment of a dedicated professorship for Theoretical Physics – first chairholder: Johann Georg K\u00f6nigsberger <\/strong>(1904-1936)<\/td><\/tr>
1910<\/td>Establishment of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
1913<\/td>Development of the molecular pump and mercury diffusion pump by Wolfgang Gaede<\/strong> (1913-1919)<\/td><\/tr>
1924<\/td>Gustav Mie<\/strong> (1924-1935) succeeds Himstedt and becomes director of the Institute of Physics<\/td><\/tr>
1944<\/td>Complete destruction of the Physical-Physiological Institute in Albertstrasse by the area bombing of Freiburg<\/td><\/tr>
1945<\/td>Reconstruction of the destroyed physics department under Wolfgang Gentner<\/strong> (1946-1958)<\/td><\/tr>
1946<\/td>The first lectures began in the summer semester of 1946 in the new building (today’s Physics west building).<\/td><\/tr>
1952<\/td>Completion of the large physics lecture hall<\/td><\/tr>
1959<\/td>Commissioning of the Van de Graaff electrostatic accelerator (the first of its kind in Europe).<\/td><\/tr>
1961<\/td>Completion of the new physics high-rise building at Hermann-Herder-Str. 3<\/td><\/tr>
1971<\/td>Establishment of the Faculty of Physics<\/td><\/tr>
2002<\/td>Establishment of the joint Faculty of Mathematics and Physics<\/td><\/tr>
2006<\/td>Final research with the accelerator and its eventual decommissioning and dismantling. The former accelerator tower now houses the astroparticle physics research group.<\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/td>Discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN hadron accelerator in Geneva with significant participation from Freiburg particle physics.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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