BESSY
Sign in to savethumb|right|500px|BESSY II storage ring and research building. The Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung m. b. H. (English: Berlin Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation), abbreviated BESSY, is a research establishment in the Adlershof district of Berlin. Founded on 5 March 1979 (in then West-Berlin), it currently operates one of Germany's 3rd generation synchrotron radiation facilities, BESSY II. Originally part of the Leibniz Association, BESSY now belongs to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (since 1 January 2009).
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- BESSY II
- inception
- 1979-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2009-00-00
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- BESSY I
- BESSY II
- Other facilities
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thumb|right|500px|BESSY II storage ring and research building. The Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung m. b. H. (English: Berlin Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation), abbreviated BESSY, is a research establishment in the Adlershof district of Berlin. Founded on 5 March 1979 (in then West-Berlin), it currently operates one of Germany's 3rd generation synchrotron radiation facilities, BESSY II. Originally part of the Leibniz Association, BESSY now belongs to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (since 1 January 2009).
Owing to the radiometry lab of the PTB BESSY is the European calibration standard for electromagnetic radiation.
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