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The first time for me to take notice of Manuel was when he started to cooperate with Rupprecht Hänsel, in 1970. Rupprecht, later Professor at Kiel University that time, had been employed as a “security person in radiation protection” at the Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg. There was just a small room where radiation was monitored. That relatively small “bunker” was soon filled with X-ray and Vacuum UV spectrometers. Manuel, arriving from Brown-University, was working there and cooperated closely with Rupprecht. Later I heard about the plans of a new Max Planck Institute building for solid state research, with Manuel as one of the directors.
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Otto, A. (2016). My Recollections of Manuel Cardona, a Great Scientist. In: Ensslin, K., Viña, L. (eds) Manuel Cardona. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20343-0_27
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