News
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NWA funding for communications research on quantum computing 22 December 2020
Leiden 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 worlds 15 December 2020
Leiden 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 Award 11 December 2020
Corona 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 project 01 December 2020
Sense 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 devices 27 November 2020
Superconducting 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 cloud 25 November 2020
The 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 motion 23 November 2020
It'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 Expansion 16 November 2020
It'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. 13 November 2020
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’ 06 November 2020
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 Kraft 04 November 2020
The 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 gases 02 November 2020
Despite 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.
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Micro boat makes world tour 27 October 2020
World wide press attention for the article and specifically the image of the 30 micrometer long micro boat 3DBenchy by Rachel Doherty, Daniela Kraft a...
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3D printed microboat 21 October 2020
From prow to stern, this little boat measures 30 micrometers, about a third of the thickness of a hair. It has been 3D-printed by Leiden physicists Ra...
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Aarts and Beenakker elected APS Fellow 29 September 2020
Physicists Carlo Beenakker and Jan Aarts have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. Carlo Beenakker: 'People acknowledge your contrib...