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Voltage at nanoscale: Leiden researchers win NeVac prize 16 April 2015
Jaap Kautz and Johannes Jobst have won the NeVac prize for developing a completely new method for studying electrical conductivity. The article they a...
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Jamming the result of special self-organisation 09 April 2015
Materials that are built up from individual granules exhibit a special phenomenon called ‘jamming’. With research into the nature of this phenomenon, ...
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PhD student Bernard van Heck to travel to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 12 March 2015
Leiden physicist Bernard van Heck is one of the seven young Dutch scientists who will be travelling to the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Promisi...
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‘Since coming to Leiden, I’ve never worried that something might be too difficult to do’ 03 March 2015
The Italian physicist Andrea Morello is one of the pioneers of the quantum revolution. He is currently doing research at the University of New South W...
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Strings attached to future high-temperature superconductivity 12 February 2015
The behaviour of strongly correlated electron systems, such as high-temperature superconductors, defies explanation in the language of ordinary quantu...
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Dirk Bouwmeester and Corinne Hofman receive NWO Spinoza Prize 09 September 2014
On 9 September, in the presence of King Willem Alexander, Secretary of State Sander Dekker presented the Spinoza Prize to four researchers, including ...
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Movements of steroid receptors inside the cell nucleus unraveled 01 April 2014
Advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques have revealed how steroid receptors move inside the nucleus. The results were published by a team from Lei...
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New zebrafish study to understand human cancer 06 October 2012
Ewa Snaar-Jagalska, Shuning He and colleagues from IBL, LION and LACDR reported on a new zebrafish study to understand micrometastasis of human cancer...
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Royal decoration for Jo Hermans and Jan Schmidt 06 May 2010
Two of our colleagues received a royal decoration. Professor Jo Hermans became “Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau”, and Professor Jan Schmidt became...
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Why are plants not black? 18 January 2010
All kinds of reasons have been put forward for why plants apparently fail to make maximum use of the available light. None of these reasons can expla...
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Photosynthesis works with valves 01 December 2009
Photosynthesis is the origin of life on earth, but it is a phenomenon that is still barely understood. Take, for example, the extremely efficient mech...
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Success for Leiden with Vidi subsidies 24 November 2009
NWO has awarded a Vidi subsidy to a total of 89 young and innovative researchers. Leiden researchers have won twelve of these subsidies and three subs...
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Folded DNA unravelled 06 October 2009
Leiden physicist Maarten Kruithof has discovered how our DNA is infallibly able to fold itself and to unfold again. In his dissertation he demonstrate...
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Understanding the game of marbles 04 September 2009
Not many scientists can claim to have received funding from NWO to blow bubbles and play with sand, but Martin van Hecke definitely can. Van Hecke, Pr...
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Wim van Saarloos New Director of FOM Foundation 01 September 2009
The FOM Executive Board has appointed Professor Wim van Saarloos (1955) Director of FOM Foundation, effective 1 November 2009.