In the media
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Measuring the pull of gravity on a micron-sized particle 10 April 2024
Tjerk Oosterkamp of the Leiden Institute of Physics managed to do the first-ever measurement of gravity on a tiny particle - just 0.43 milligrams - wh...
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023
Researchers found a way to run programmes that should be impossible to carry out on an imperfect quantum computer. Such programmes are very computatio...
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Julia Cramer in Atlas 24 February 2021
Tonight 20:25, Julia Cramer, expert in quantum information and communication science, is a guest in the television science programma Atlas
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize 07 October 2019
Christopher 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 2019
Ten 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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Leiden physicists in the media on Nobel Prize 04 October 2018
The 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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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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Leiden Wall formulas on TV channel Omroep West 08 November 2016
On Thursday 3 November, Leiden University celebrated the official opening of two wall formulas in the Leiden city centre. Snell's law and the formula ...