Photo: Jarrod Kinsey
A special exhibition by the Deutsches Museum in cooperation with the "Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology"
Light and matter
The sun at the beach, the scanner at the supermarket checkout or the signal in a fibre optic cable: when light encounters matter – or matter encounters light – exciting things happen!
While we come across some of these phenomena in our daily lives, others are invisible to the human eye or entirely elude our understanding.
The Light and Matter exhibition presents the foundations of quantum optics and demonstrates how our understanding of light and matter has evolved over the past century. These new insights are essential for the fields of quantum science and quantum technologies, which are both active areas of intensive research today.
The exhibition “Light and Matter” developed in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence “Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology” (MCQST).
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M.Sc. Eckhard Wallis
Acting curator
Deutsches Museum
80306 MunichTelephone +49 892179 350
Fax +49 892179 99350
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Dr. Johannes-Geert Hagmann
Kommissarische Leitung Bereich Forschung
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