In the media
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Lucia Bossoni in Newsweek 17 May 2018
Newsweek has published a story on Leiden Alzheimer research led by physicist Lucia Bossoni.
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Radio broadcast on Leiden wall formulas on BNR 26 February 2018
BNR Radio has broadcast an item on the physics formulas that are painted on walls across the Leiden historic city center. The wall formulas are initia...
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Physics ice skating experiment in De Volkskrant 12 February 2018
Experimental physicist Tjerk Oosterkamp and theoretician Hans van Leeuwen conduct research on the exact mechanism behind ice skating. De Volkskrant pu...
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Leiden experiments in DWDD University 28 November 2017
Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf used experiments and models from Leiden University for his tv lecture on symmetry. The lecture was broadcast live on channel 1...
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Leiden Wall Formulas in Nature 23 November 2017
Nature published an article on the new wall formulas in the Leiden city center. On November 22nd, Leiden University celebrated the opening of three ne...
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Physics Image Award in newspapers 22 November 2017
The winning picture by Sander Blok in the annual Physics Image Award has made it to Leidsch Dagblad. The runner-up image by Jelmer Wagenaar has been s...
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Interview Michel Orrit on NPO Cultura 28 September 2017
On Thursday 28 September at 19:45, tv channel NPO Cultura will broadcast an interview with Michel Orrit about his Spinoza Prize winning research, as p...
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Media about the late Nicolaas Bloembergen 21 September 2017
Nicolaas Bloembergen, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981, passed away on 5 September in Tucson, Arizona. Bloembergen obtained his PhD on nucle...
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Bouncing gel balls popular in the media 25 July 2017
The explanation from physicist Scott Waitukaitis for the screaming and bouncing gel balls in a hot pan has been covered in several media, including th...
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Large media attention for Spinoza Prize Michel Orrit 23 June 2017
An important award like the Spinoza Prize, the 'Dutch Nobel Prize', generates lots of media attention. An overview.
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Corentin Coulais in NRC and New Scientist 16 February 2017
Newspaper NRC and popular scientific magazine New Scientist write about Corentin Coulais’ research on one-way-traffic metamaterials. He published a pa...
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Joost Frenken on Radio 1 Langs de Lijn en Omstreken 01 February 2017
Physicist Joost Frenken was interviewed on the radio show 'Langs de Lijn en Omstreken' (Radio 1) about the recent discovery of superconductive graphen...
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Tjerk Oosterkamp in New Scientist on Elfstedentocht 10 January 2017
Because the last Elfstedentocht celebrates its twentieth anniversary, New Scientist spoke with physics professor Tjerk Oosterkamp about his research o...
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DWDD University uses Leiden Physics experiments 05 December 2016
In the latest episode of DWDD University on 'Light', Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf used a number of experiments from the Leiden Physics Practicum Lab. He sh...
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Winner Physics Image Award is Volkskrant Image of the Week 28 November 2016
Vera Meester has won the annual Physics Image Award 2016, with her photo of 'smiling' colloids. The Volkskrant published the picture as Image of the W...