Thomas Weber Receives the Will-Kleber Commemorative Coin
Thomas Weber, the head of the X-ray platform at D-MATL, receives the Will-Kleber Commemorative Coin from the German Society for Crystallography.
The external pageWill-Kleber Commemorative Coin is awarded annually by the external pageGerman Society for Crystallography for outstanding scientific contributions in selected fields of crystallography. Thomas Weber, head of the X-ray platform at D-MATL, receives the award for his methodological work on the study of disordered crystals using diffuse X-ray scattering.
Disordered crystals are characterized by the fact that they are not strictly long-range ordered, but exhibit local deviations from the perfect translational symmetry of ordered crystals. Knowledge of local order is fundamental to understanding many physical and chemical properties of a material, such as electric and magnetic polarization states, or the tracking of solid-state reactions. Thomas Weber's research results allow better characterisation and easier access to such phenomena.