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Let the sun shine in Leiden! 26 January 2015
The Leiden Observatory is starting a crowdfunding campaign to raise enough money to construct a new telescope.
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‘Discoverer of the Year’, best dissertation and Education Award 2014 06 January 2015
At the New Year’s reception of the Faculty of Science on 6 January, it was announced that Annelien Zweemer, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, ...
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Spinoza prize for Leiden astronomer Xander Tielens 04 June 2012
Leiden astronomer Xander Tielens has been awarded a Spinoza prize, the highest scientific prize in the Netherlands. Tielens is Professor in the Physic...
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Ewine van Dishoeck appointed Academy Professor 04 April 2012
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) has awarded an Academy Professorship to Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Le...
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Harold Linnartz Professor of Laboratory Astrophysics 16 August 2011
The Executive Board has appointed Professor Harold Linnartz as Professor of Laboratory Physics with effect from 1 June 2011. Linnartz has worked since...
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Shedding light on the dark side of the universe 25 January 2011
It must be there. We just cannot see it: mysterious dark matter and dark energy in the universe. Henk Hoekstra is one of the many cosmologists who wou...
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Superstorm on exoplanet 30 June 2010
Dutch astronomers have measured a superstorm for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, the well-studied “hot Jupiter” HD209458b. The very ...
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Spinoza winner Marijn Franx to use successor to Hubble 07 June 2010
A permanent exhibition on the place of humans in the cosmos. This is something Franx wants to use his Spinoza Prize for. ‘So much progress has been ma...
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Restoration of Sterrewacht reaches highest point 12 March 2010
The restoration of the Sterrewacht is proceeding well and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. On Thursday 11 March, the highest point ...
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Four Vicis for Leiden researchers 02 February 2010
Leiden has scored highly with the recent Vici awards. Of the 31 Vici winners announced by NWO, 4 are researchers in Leiden. The winners are: Professor...
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What do PAHs do in space? 10 November 2009
Xander Tielens, Professor of Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Space, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study polycyclic aromatic hydr...
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New light on dark matter 30 September 2009
An international team of astronomers has found an unexpected link between dark matter and visible stars in stellar systems. This discovery may even ca...
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Strange spinning binary star explains 30-year enigma 16 September 2009
An international team led by Leiden astronomers has discovered why the two stars of binary star DI Herculis rotate so strangely around one another, wh...
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Leiden University Excellence Scholarships (LexS) awarded 01 September 2009
The Leiden University Excellence Scholarships Programme (LExS) provides scholarships for excellent international students from outside the EU/EEA who ...
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What happens when two galaxies collide? 14 July 2009
When galaxies collide, do the black holes at their centre form a supersized black hole? This is what we think happens, but it's not as simple as that,...