Manfred von Ardenne was respected as a renowned expert for his activities in the field of medical electronics. Physics based technical methods as diagnostic apparatus solutions entered more and more medical disciplines. ...

On Friday, November 9, VON ARDENNE was honored as "Best SME" within the framework of the „MX Award“ benchmarking comparison. „MX“ stands for „Manufacturing Excellence“ and - originating from Great Britain - has established in Germany for three years. Process innnovation, customer orientation, Product innovation, Best SME and Overall Winner of the MX Award form the categories for which prizes are awarded. ...

In 1962, Manfred von Ardenne published an essay entitled „Visions of the state-of-the-art in the year 2000”. Although this was only an essay, it attracted worldwide attention substantiating for good his reputation as a universal scientist and thinker. ...

Exactly 100 years ago technical pioneer and inventor Manfred von Ardenne was born. It is on this occasion that we recount 12 episodes of the life of the founder and namesgiver of the company whose mentality and innovative strength we still feel obliged to. ...

In 2007,VON ARDENNE Anlagentechnik GmbH commemorates the 100th birthday of its founders and namesgiver Manfred von Ardenne. On this occasion an International Festive Colloquium will be held with business partners and customers on 10 September 2007 at Lingnerschloss Castle in Dresden. ...

The highly decorated scientist returned from the Soviet Union in 1955. This was celebrated by the GDR leaders as a commitment to socialism. As early as in 1952, the USSR side had promised to return all of the property he was forced to take to Suchumi in 1945, under the condition that he decided to settle in the GDR. ...

Manfred von Ardenne was quite aware that excellent results could only be obtained if excellent staff was available. Even under the most difficult circumstances he followed this ideal when assessing the abilities of, in particular, leading members of his staff. ...

Lawrentij P. Berija, notorious head of Stalin's secret service and of the special committee for the Soviet nuclear program, later executed, intended to confide to the German scientists the development of the first Soviet nuclear bomb. ...

In May 1945, prior to the Americans, the Soviets came to Berlin acting quickly. On 10 May, the well-known von Ardenne laboratory in Lichterfelde was surrounded and sealed off by 150 Russian soldiers. ...

White lie of the physicists, this is how DIE WELT called the dilemma of leading scientists during the Third Reich. Contemporaries are mostly in agreement that Manfred von Ardenne, with his extraordinary experimental abilities and his scientific intuition would have been in a position to launch a German atomic bomb programme. ...

The Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) established in Cleveland in 1957, for the 50th time will hold TechCon, its annual technology-oriented conference, from 28 April to 3 May. ...

Euphoria about the fantastic possibilities of the transmission electron microscope developed by Ruska had hardly calmed down when it became more and more clear that its theoretical resolution capacity in practice could never be reached. ...

The breakthrough of the fully electronic television came on 14 December 1930 when the electronic flying-spot scanner was realized for the first time. Manfred von Ardenne later wrote about this in a personal memorandum: ...

The broadcast receiver of the German company LOEWE first retailed in 1926 brought down the price for three-stage radio reception to one third on the European market. ...

Exactly 100 years ago technical pioneer and inventor Manfred von Ardenne was born. It is on this occasion that we recount 12 episodes of the life of the founder and namesgiver of the company whose mentality and innovative strength we still feel obliged to. ...