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Third annual Physics Science Day 04 September 2018
On Tuesday September 11th, the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) organizes the third edition of its annual Science Day. Scientists from disciplines a...
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Where does the quantum world end? 30 August 2018
With his ice-cold nano force sensor, Tjerk Oosterkamp searches for the boundary between the quantum world and the everyday world. The Leiden physicist...
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Cosmologists propose new way to form primordial black holes 29 August 2018
What is dark matter? How do supermassive black holes form? ‘Primordial’ black holes might hold the answer to these long-standing questions. Leiden and...
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science 15 August 2018
Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Surprising similarity between stripy black holes and high-temperature superconductors 23 July 2018
We don’t understand how some materials become superconducting at relatively high temperatures. Leiden physicists have now found a surprising connectio...
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Physicists demonstrate new method to make single photons 23 July 2018
Scientists need individual photons for quantum cryptography and quantum computers. Leiden physicists have now experimentally demonstrated a new produc...
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Interview: Spinoza Prize winner Marileen Dogterom 19 July 2018
Physicist Marileen Dogterom is one of the winners of the Spinoza Prize 2018. She is a professor at TU Delft, where she has her lab, and is also affili...
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Physics Summer School kicks off 13 July 2018
From July 22nd to August 1st, the Leiden Institute of Physics organizes its annual summer school, titled ‘Modern Physics at all Scales’.
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‘SRON and South-Holland can reinforce each other well’ 13 July 2018
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. In 2021, the Utrecht branch will settle in South-Holland. Pieter Dieleman is group leader at ...
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First discovery of high-energy neutrino source 12 July 2018
For the first time, scientists have traced back a high-energy neutrino to its source in space. It was produced by a so-called blazar—a supermassive bl...
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Vidi Grant for Stefan Semrau: how does bioelectricity shape embryonic development? 28 June 2018
Leiden biophysicist Stefan Semrau was granted an NWO Vidi earlier this month. He will use the grant to study the role of electricity in embryonic deve...
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Sense Jan van der Molen appointed as Professor Physics of Condensed Matter 11 June 2018
As of 1 June, Leiden University has appointed Sense Jan van der Molen as Professor Physics of Condensed matter. He investigates the unique electronic ...
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Recycling at microscale 06 June 2018
Playing with tiny building blocks might sound like child’s play, but Vera Meester knows better. On June 7 she will defend her thesis on colloids: micr...
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Vidis for nine Leiden researchers 01 June 2018
Nine talented Leiden researchers have been awarded a Vidi subsidy by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Vidis are intended fo...
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New transmission microscope for low-energy electrons 31 May 2018
Physicist Daniël Geelen has developed a new microscope that uses low-energy electrons. Those are less harmful to biological and organic materials. Gee...