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Prestigious Breakthrough Prize for first picture of black hole23 September 2019They are often referred to as ‘The Oscars of the Natural Sciences’: the Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. Thi...
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Ewine van Dishoeck awarded prestigious Schwarzschild Medal11 September 2019The German Astronomical Society has awarded the 2019 Karl Schwarzschild Medal to professor of Molecular astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck. She will rece...
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All comets in our solar system might come from the same place09 September 2019All comets might share their place of birth, new research says. For the first time ever, astronomer Christian Eistrup applied chemical models to fourt...
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Outreach programme spaceEU launched at one of the world’s largest science festivals06 September 2019On 5 September, spaceEU was launched at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, one of the world’s largest science, technology and media art festivals. ...
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Dialogue, collaboration and quantum: opening academic year Faculty of Science03 September 2019With a call for dialogue and collaboration, vice dean Bart de Smit kicked off the new academic year for the Faculty of Science on Tuesday 3 September....
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In Memoriam Lodewijk Woltjer28 August 2019Professor Lodewijk Woltjer passed away on 25 August 2019.
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Young scientists meet up at Young Faculty of Science14 August 2019Being an assistant professor can be rather solitary. You often do not have your own research group and also you don't yet have the extensive network o...
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Dutch-Japanese astronomic instrument measures 49 shades of far infrared05 August 2019The Dutch-Japanese made DESHIMA instrument has passed its first practical tests when measuring the distances and ages of distant galaxies. The core of...
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Rychard Bouwens granted precious research time on ALMA telescope31 July 2019Rychard Bouwens from the Leiden Observatory is the first scientist in the Netherlands to be assigned a Large Programme on the state-of-the-art ALMA te...
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Ronald Stark and Amina Helmi join the management of NOVA23 July 2019The directorate of the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) has two new members. Ronald Stark (currently at NWO) will be the new Executive...
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These are the seven Veni winners of the Faculty of Science16 July 2019The Faculty of Science has received no less than seven Veni grants this year. Camila Correa, Max van Duijn, Stéphanie van der Pas, Sergii Pud, Mónica ...
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Hubertus Irth named Interim Dean of the Faculty of Science09 July 2019The Executive Board has appointed Professor Hubertus Irth as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. Professor Irth will take up ...
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Two Leiden astronomers awarded with prestigious IAU PhD Prize02 July 2019Two Leiden astronomers will receive the prestigious IAU PhD Prize. Both Jorryt Mathee and Niels Ligterink of the Leiden Observatory won a prize. Scien...
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Multimessenger astronomy to study the structure of Milky Way27 June 2019For centuries, astronomers have studied the universe by collecting light signals. Since 2015, the confirmation of an important prediction of Einstein ...
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Scientific research with any smartphone camera25 June 2019Although smartphones and other consumer cameras are increasingly used for scientific applications like citizen science, it’s still difficult to compar...