Thesis-PDF - IAP/TU Wien
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Chapter 8<br />
Acknowledgments<br />
This work would not have been possible without the great support of a number of<br />
people. I would like to heartily thank<br />
Ille Gebeshuber for showing me wonderful science, for her great enthusiasm<br />
and all the long hours reading and correcting the manuscript,<br />
Friedrich Aumayr for his patience as well as for his encouragement and the<br />
constructive criticism regarding my work,<br />
Herbert Stachelberger for helping me with fluorescence microscopy at the<br />
Institut für Verfahrenstechnik and for sharing his motivation and enthusiasm,<br />
Paolo Gualtieri, Laura Barsanti and their group at the Institute of Biophysics<br />
at the CNR in Pisa, Italy, for introducing me to Euglena gracilis and related<br />
laboratory techniques as well as providing samples for my AFM investigations,<br />
the members of the Arbeitsgruppe "Atomic and Plasma Physics" at the<br />
Institut für Allgemeine Physik, especially Michael Brunmayr, Christoph<br />
Gösselsberger, Oliver Hekele, Donat Holzer, Katharina Igenbergs, Cezary<br />
Pieczetowski and Robert Ritter for fruitful discussions and a cheerful time,<br />
the friendly and supportive staff at the Institute für Allgemeine Physik, making<br />
it a pleasure to work there,<br />
my family for continuous support,<br />
Rosika for motivating me to get things done,<br />
& all the others who were there when I needed them.<br />
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