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When the times were changing

It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the wake of the upheaval, the East German society was radically remodelled. For physicists, it brought new opportunities — and fresh challenges.

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Klein, M. When the times were changing. Nature Phys 5, 852–854 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1467

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