On March 4, Friedrich Wagner, president of the European Physical Society (EPS) and distinguished researcher at Germany's Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, was awarded the highest honor by the German Physical Society (DPG)—the Stern-Gerlach Medal 2009.
This award recognized Wagner's illustrious career, which spanned contributions to plasma physics, particularly his discovery of a means to manipulate the magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas. This discovery enabled the first demonstration of significant power generation in fusion power experiments (in the Joint European Torus in the UK and the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in the US) after more than 50 years of concerted worldwide efforts.
The medal is to be presented this coming year at the annual conference of the DPG.
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