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The National Academy of Sciences (US) has announced the election of 26 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, among them ETH physicist Jürg Fröhlich.  

ETH physicists have developed the first high-repetition-rate laser source that produces coherent soft x-rays spanning the entire ‘water window’. That technological breakthrough should enable a broad range of studies in the biological, chemical and material sciences as well as in physics.

Materials that combine topological electronic properties and quantum magnetism are of high current interest, for the quantum many-body physics that can unfold in them and for possible applications in electronic components. For one such material, ETH physicists have now established the microscopic mechanism linking magnetism and electronic-band topology.