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2023 Cavendish PhD prize winners announced
Congratulations to the winners of the Cavendish Annual Thesis Prize. The prizes are awarded in recognition of exceptional computational, experimental and theoretical physics research by PhD students. 2023 has been...
2 December 2022
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The Dolby family extend their support to create a new fund for excellence in physics
The family of the late Ray Dolby has made a further transformational commitment to the University of Cambridge, ensuring the brightest minds in physics will have the resources they need...
28 November 2022
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Non-detection of key signal allows astronomers to determine what the first galaxies were – and weren’t – like
Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies formed, known as the cosmic dawn.
28 November 2022
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Dr. Diana Fusco awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant
The European Research Council starting grant will support Dr. Fusco’s research group to develop mathematical methods and experimental validations to predict phage-bacteria co-evolution, a key step to be able to...
22 November 2022
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Amy Ogle, “best man” in the Natural Sciences Tripos
Isobel Falconer describes the remarkable story of Amy Ogle, a truly pioneering women student who died tragically young. ‘My best man is Ogle,’ declared an examiner for Cambridge’s Natural Sciences...
17 November 2022
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Professor Jacqui Cole receives her Clifford Paterson Medal
Prof. Jacqui Cole officially received her award after presenting the prize lecture at the Royal Society. Her interdisciplinary research aims to provide a data-driven approach to materials discovery. Professor Jacqueline...
12 November 2022
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A new finding to develop more energy efficient OLEDs
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are currently used in high end displays, where they offer more vibrant colours, deeper blacks, and superior energy efficiency compared to older technologies, such as liquid...
11 November 2022
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Dr. David Sun (1966 – 2022)
Members of the Department will be saddened to learn of the death of David Sun (Astrophysics) after a short period of ill-health. David joined the Astrophysics Group in 2005 having...
2 November 2022