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Herwig Franz Schopper - Wilhelm Exner Medal 1991 Most wind instruments work on the principle of cavity resonators, standing waves are set into resonance. Herwig Franz Schopper was the first in Europe to study superconducting cavity resonators, which led to collaboration with CERN. He became head of the Nuclear Physics Division in 1970 and director general in 1981. A native of the Czech Republic, he studied physics at the Universität Hamburg. He then served as director of the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Hochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences, worked at Cornell University, in Karlsruhe, became involved with the “Sesame” synchrotron facility in Jordan, built on the model of CERN, and worked at the Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR, in Dubna. Schopper has received international awards, including the Albert Einstein Gold Medal from UNESCO and the Tate Medal from the American Institute of Physics. He has held honorary doctorates from the Institute of Biomaterials University of Erlangen - Nuremberg, University of London, the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research near Moscow, The Cyprus Institute Nicosia, and many others.