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- Laser Focus World, Volume: 43 Issue: 9, Sept. 2007: Prize for laser innovation accepting entries
- The Grants Register 2007, 25th Edition, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
- Maecenas Award presented to Berthold Leibinger (Laudation, in German)
- Activities described on website and brochures of the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung
- Berthold Leibinger Fellow Class of Spring 2008 on Website of American Academy in Berlin
