In the media
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize07 October 2019Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
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Ten years later: what about Erik Verlinde and his theory?09 August 2019Ten years after its introduction, the controversial idea of Erik Verlinde on gravity is still a hotly debated topic, and is still surrounded by a clou...
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Daniela Kraft about freezing soap bubbles20 June 2019Physicists at Virginia Tech in the US investigated how a soap bubble freezes to become a beautiful ice dome. This only happens when the surrounding ai...
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Leiden physicists in the media on Nobel Prize04 October 2018The 2018 Physics Nobel Prize is awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou for their research on optical tweezers based on lasers. L...
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Self-folding materials: Martin van Hecke in the media28 September 2018Martin van Hecke published an article in Nature, together with physicists from AMOLF and UvA. They have developed a metamaterial that folds itself up,...
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Lucia Bossoni in Newsweek17 May 2018Newsweek has published a story on Leiden Alzheimer research led by physicist Lucia Bossoni.
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Radio broadcast on Leiden wall formulas on BNR26 February 2018BNR 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 Volkskrant12 February 2018Experimental 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 University28 November 2017Prof. 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 Nature23 November 2017Nature 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 newspapers22 November 2017The 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 Cultura28 September 2017On 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 Bloembergen21 September 2017Nicolaas 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 media25 July 2017The 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 Orrit23 June 2017An important award like the Spinoza Prize, the 'Dutch Nobel Prize', generates lots of media attention. An overview.