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tics/ New research into gamma rays has led to a discovery that will make many new applications possible in medicine and materials research. Physicists at the Max Planck Institute discovered that high-energy gamma rays can be diffracted and focused by lenses, paving the way for a new chapter in optics.
Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit=E4t in Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have opened up a new chapter in optics: in experiments with gamma rays at the Institut Laue- Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble they have proven that these extremely high- energy electromagnetic waves can be focused by lenses like conventional light =96 the researchers have thus refuted a fundamental assumption of theoretical physics that had been valid for decades. Their discovery will make a great many new applications possible in medicine and materials research, for example.
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