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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’08 February 2019His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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Table salt discovered around a young star07 February 2019New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years from Earth in the disk surrounding a massive ...
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Portrait of former DG, Tim de Zeeuw, unveiled06 February 2019A portrait of Tim de Zeeuw was unveiled and added to the gallery of former ESO Directors General at ESO HQ, on Monday 21 January. The portrait was unv...
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Memorial ceremony of Maolin Zhang25 January 2019A memorial of Maolin’s life is planned on Wednesday the 30th of January at the Academy Building in the center of Leiden.
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In memoriam: Maolin Zhang19 January 2019
We are grief-stricken that our PhD student Maolin Zhang passed away during the early morning of January 17th 2019. He died during a terrible fire that...
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Leiden starts exchange with Poland17 January 2019Leiden University has started a collaboration with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. The project includes the exchange of students and sta...
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Cucurachi, Behrens and Matthee are teacher, discoverer, and PhD candidate of 201808 January 2019Environmental scientists Stefano Cucurachi and Paul Behrens and astronomer Jorryt Matthee have received prizes during the New Year's reception of the ...
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Young stars in the Orion Nebula are practicing birth control07 January 2019Astronomers from Leiden University have discovered that the star wind from a newborn star in the Orion Nebula prevents more stars from forming in the ...
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Star mapper Anthony Brown in Nature's 1019 December 2018Leiden astronomer Anthony Brown is part of Nature’s 10: the ten people who mattered in science in 2018, according to the leading science journal. Work...
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MASCARA stations hunt for exoplanets orbiting bright stars13 December 2018For a number of years, two ‘boxes’ in the Canary Islands and Chile have been scouring the skies for exoplanets that orbit bright stars. PhD candidate ...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 201813 December 2018Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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Strong impetus for South Holland space research10 December 2018The SRON space research institute, Leiden University and the TU Delft are appointing six researchers to jointly carry out space research. The researc...
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Halo of gas shows how exoplanets are slowly losing their atmosphere06 December 2018Twee teams of astronomers, including from the universities of Amsterdam and Leiden, have discovered how hot gas giants are surrounded by large halos o...
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14 Leiden researchers on highly cited list03 December 2018Fourteen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 28 November by Clarivate Analytics.
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Female Researchers in the Spotlight for Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day14 November 2018On Thursday November 15th, Leiden University organizes its Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day for female high school students. To mark this festive day, ...