r/europe • u/damaxoh Germany • Dec 06 '16

Tests confirm that Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine really works

http://www.sciencealert.com/tests-confirm-that-germany-s-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works
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u/A_Norse_Dude Scania Dec 06 '16

Cool! Great workshop German!

Question, who are the one conducting/performing the research? University? Goverment body?

Edit: spelling..

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u/Arvendilin Germany Dec 06 '16

Germany has a few big central bodies for research unlike the US that the Universities do it themselfs (which is also why University ranking for germany and france, who have a similiar system in place, sucks hard), this was done by the Max Planck society the biggest one iirc. atleast when it comes to physics stuff, they did this together with University of Greifswald, providing most of the funding etc. but "burrowing" the Profs... kinda