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Tracking galaxies from a few glowing pixels 09 December 2019
In 2018, astronomer Jorryt Matthee won the C.J. Kok Jury Prize for the best dissertation of the Faculty of Science. He succeeded in finding a number o...
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The most popular articles of 2019 09 December 2019
From children’s inability to identify animals to a big protest at the opening of the academic year: below are some of our most popular articles of 2019.
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17 Leiden researchers on highly cited list 20 November 2019
Seventeen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 19 November by Clarivate Analytics.
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Searching for the origins of life in space with 8.9 million euros 01 November 2019
With 8.9 million euros from the Danish National Research Foundation, Aarhus University and Leiden Observatory will establish the Center for Interstell...
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A first glimpse at the new SRON building 01 November 2019
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. The headquarters of the institute will relocate to the Science Campus of Leiden University. I...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film Festival 29 October 2019
A film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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‘Relocation SRON only offers opportunities’ 22 October 2019
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. In 2021, the Utrecht branch of the institute will be located in South-Holland. Leiden profess...
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva 15 October 2019
Astrophysicist Ewine van Dishoeck has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva. She received the award on 11 October during th...
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A matter of dark matter 14 October 2019
Is our universe built up out of warm or cold dark matter? The standard model assumes cold dark matter particles, but astronomer Sylvia Ploeckinger is ...
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Celestial worlds and comet hysteria in Van Dishoeck exhibition 10 October 2019
A moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission, antique globes and the cosmos according to Wassily Kandinsky. Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astro...
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It takes two (or more) to build a telescope 07 October 2019
How do stars and galaxies form? What is dark matter? To answer these and other questions, we need increasingly large telescopes. And to build these, w...
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Record sum Leiden Science Run for refugee scholars 01 October 2019
The Leiden Science Run 2019 has raised a record sum of 12,135 euros for refugee student foundation UAF. No less than 101 teams – also a record – and t...
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Michiel Kreutzer new Dean of the Faculty of Science 26 September 2019
Professor Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. He will take up the role on 1 January 2020. At p...
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Jan Hendrik Oort: world-famous yet unassuming astronomer 23 September 2019
He discovered how to determine the rotation and centre of our Milky Way, predicted where comets come from and laid the groundwork for radio astronomy:...
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Prestigious Breakthrough Prize for first picture of black hole 23 September 2019
They are often referred to as ‘The Oscars of the Natural Sciences’: the Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. Thi...