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Rachel Doherty wins LION Image Award with famed Microboat imageThe annual LION Image award goes to the 30 micrometer long 3D printed microboat image that went viral earlier in October 2020, submitted by Rachel Doh...
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LION Image AwardsOn 15 January, the winner of the famed LION Image Award will be announced. Submissions ranged from the famous 3d printed microboat to an eerily abstra...
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Teaching Assistant Prize for Michał Pacholski and Koen van DeelenTo improve our teaching and reward excellent teaching assistants, the institute offers a Teaching Assistant Prize to the best teaching assistant of t...
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NWA funding for communications research on quantum computingLeiden physicist Julia Cramer receives 50 thousand euros in funding for 'Let's talk about quantum', a research project on communication about quantum ...
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New ONEM Microscope to combine best of two worldsLeiden physicists have been awarded 1.5 million euros for developing a hybrid microscope that provided nanometer-resolution. 'The idea is to combine t...
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LION 2020 Image AwardCorona be damned, it's high time for the yearly LION Image award! Deadline in a week.
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First NWO Communication Award for Leiden Wall Formula projectSense Jan van der Molen and Ivo van Vulpen have been awarded the first ENW Communication Award by funding agency NWO for their Wall Formula project. T...
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Leiden Physicists invent printable superconducting devicesSuperconducting devices such as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interferometry Device) can perform ultra-sensitive measurements of magnetic fields. Le...
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Consortium puts Quantum Computer in the cloudThe quantum computer is on its way, but is society ready for it? Quantum computers have a reputation of being difficult to grasp because of their comp...
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Leiden physicists detect single nanoparticles in motionIt's pretty hard to spot a single 5 nanometer particle. Leiden physicists pulled it off by turning a 120 nm gold rod into a detector.
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Gravitational Lenses measure Universe ExpansionIt's one of the big cosmology debates: the universe is expanding, but how fast exactly? Two available measurements yield different results. Leiden phy...
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Koen Bastiaans wins first Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize.The winner of the Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize 2020 is Koen Bastiaans. He carried out his PhD research in the group of Milan Allan an...
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‘A week feels like a month at the National Think Tank’In the National Think Tank (NDT) 20 young academics spend four months reflecting on how to solve a societal problem. Four participants from Leiden tol...
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Vidi research grant for physicist Daniela KraftThe image of the Leiden microboat traveled all over the world, from the BBC up to Arab shipping blogs. But Daniela Kraft's research group has quite a ...
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8th wall formula about the Van der Waals-equation for gasesDespite the rain and awful weather, the painting job has been finished within a week. The Van der Waals-state equation is the eighth Leiden wall formula.