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2007 Descartes Prize Winners Announced

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The HESS (High Energy Stereoscopic System) telescope was one of three research projects funded by the European Commission to share in the €1m ($1.3 million) 2007 Descartes Prize for Research announced earlier this month in Brussels at the start of the 7th European Framework Program, "Today is Future." HESS, a system of four telescopes, each with a diameter of 13 meters, began operations in September 2004. With their wide field of vision -- equivalent to 10 times the surface of the moon -- At the Descartes Prize ceremony in Brussels on March 7 are (l-r) Federal Minister for Education and...Read full article

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    Published: March 2007
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