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Hubertus Irth named Interim Dean of the Faculty of ScienceThe Executive Board has appointed Professor Hubertus Irth as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. Professor Irth will take up ...
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Quantum particles and bacteria without cell walls: KLEIN grant for Beenakker and ClaessenAre Weyl particles the ideal conductors? Do cells without a cell wall play a role in chronic Tuberculosis infections? Carlo Beenakker and Dennis Claes...
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MBO Rijnland students animate Leiden physicsThere are miniaturisation beams, microrobots, and ice skaters who suddenly drop into a hole in the ice. Students of the local MBO Rijnland let their i...
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Cum laude physicist Tom O’Brien to research quantum chemistry by quantum computersWith defending his thesis ‘Applications of topology to Weyl semimetals and quantum computing’, the Leiden theoretical physicist Tom O'Brien has gained...
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Daniela Kraft about freezing soap bubblesPhysicists at Virginia Tech in the US investigated how a soap bubble freezes to become a beautiful ice dome. This only happens when the surrounding ai...
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Leiden physics acquires original HorndeskiThe Leiden physics institute LION has bought a painting by the American physicist Gregory Horndeski, who wrote a brilliant article about gravity in 19...
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Chasing Schrödinger's catSchrödinger's cat is famously dead and alive, hidden in its closed box. As soon as one opens the box up to peek inside, the cat suddenly turns dead or...
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The mystery of Einstein's sinkAccording to some stories, Einstein washed his hands there only once. According to others, students moved it as a joke. Whatever the case may be, Eins...
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Quantum computing pioneer Seth Lloyd is the 2019 Lorentz ProfessorAmerican physicist and quantum computing pioneer Seth Lloyd is the 65th Lorentz professor. He will deliver the Ehrenfest lecture on 5 June, and severa...
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Alessandra Silvestri wins Vidi for understanding the universeAlessandra Silvestri, a cosmologist at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), has been awarded an NWO Vidi grant for understanding the expanding univ...
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Searching for quasicrystals near KamchatkaQuasicrystals are crystals with ‘impossible’ five-fold symmetries, which nevertheless were synthesized in the lab in 1982. Paul J. Steinhardt helped f...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchersFrom artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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The most stable microscope in the worldMaking the most vibration-free, cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope in the world. A bold mission, but one that PhD candidate Irene Battisti succes...
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Yoga, inclusiveness and dilemma game at first Science PhD DayMorning yoga, having your resumé checked at the information market, or dancing for inclusiveness: just a small selection of the activities of the firs...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of EcologyProfessor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...